D6 - Ensure that heritage is taken into account in development, spatial planning, environmental and energy policies
Heritage cannot be viewed in isolation from its physical and cultural context, developing a high-quality living environment means considering heritage in other sectoral policies.
D6 Challenges
Development challenges
- Building a more inclusive and cohesive society
- Developing Europe’s prosperity by drawing on its heritage resources
- Ensuring that Europeans enjoy a high quality of life, in harmony with their cultural and natural environment
- Implementing the principle of integrated conservation
- Ensuring that heritage is taken into account in sustainable spatial development strategies and programmes
- Developing the ability of public services to address sustainable spatial development issues by means of better use of heritage
- Preserving and developing the ability of public services to address heritage issues
Societal challenges
- Optimising implementation of the conventions
Knowledge challenges
- Ensuring heritage stakeholders have access to lifelong training
- Supporting, strengthening and promoting intergovernmental co-operation
D6 Target audience
- local
- regional
- national
- European
Recommended courses of action for D6
- Give systematic consideration to heritage in spatial planning and environmental management documents at all levels of authority
- Adopt policies and enact legislation facilitating the integrated approach by and to heritage
- Carry out experimental activities regarding energy performance in old buildings
Good practices for D6
- Strategy 21 - Territorial and economic development (D)
- D1 - Promote cultural heritage as a resource and facilitate financial investment
- D2 - Support and promote the heritage sector as a means of creating jobs and business opportunities
- D3 - Promote heritage skills and professionals
- D4 - Produce heritage impact studies for rehabilitation, construction, planning and infrastructure projects
- D5 - Encourage the reuse of heritage and use of traditional knowledge and practice
- D6 - Ensure that heritage is taken into account in development, spatial planning, environmental and energy policies
- D7 - Give consideration to heritage in sustainable tourism development policies
- D8 - Protect, restore and enhance heritage, making greater use of new technologies
- D9 - Use innovative techniques to present cultural heritage to the public, while preserving its integrity
- D10 - Use the cultural heritage as a means of giving the region a distinctive character and making it more attractive and better known
- D11 - Develop new management models to ensure that heritage benefits from the economic spinoffs that it generates