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  • Historic Environment

    Heritage and Community Planning

    Topics:
    • Historic environment, 
    • Heritage & You

    Community planning allows citizens, residents, businesses and other key partners to work together to tackle local needs, drive regeneration and to improve the co-ordination, planning and delivery of local services.

    Each District Council in Northern Ireland has been tasked with drawing up a community plan for its area and DOE has produced guidance on this process which can be viewed below:

    • Statutory guidance for the operation of community planning

    The Historic Environment has an important contribution to make to this process. It has been shown to have huge potential to increase jobs and economic output relative to neighbouring regions. A study of the economic value can be viewed at the following link:

    • The economic value of Northern Ireland's historic environment

    It supports health and well being through the character and beauty it brings to our places and it provides a key educational resource to learn about our past.

    The involvement of communities in strategic decisions about heritage, and in ensuring that these decisions take account of wider issues is increasingly seen as vital to good decision making in the sector. This has been advocated by national and international bodies.

    To highlight the potential that exists, the Minister of the Environment organised a conference ‘Back to the Future - New Directions, International best practice and local management’, in December 2015. This included international and local speakers.

    Contact

    • Historic Environment Division

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    • Conservation Principles
    • Get Involved in Heritage Projects
    • Heritage and Climate Change
    • Heritage at Risk
    • Heritage in Government Care
    • Historic Environment Division - Who we are and the difference we make
    • Skills Development
    • The value of the Historic Environment
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