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Consultation Draft May 2016 O N IM D R T IA THE CITY OF WORLD HERITAGE SITE Management Plan 2016-2022 NIO MU Consultation Draft May 2016 O N IM D R T IA A L • P • W L O A I R D L D N H O E M R I E T IN AG O E • PATRIM Supported by Members of the City of Bath World Heritage Site Steering Group have played an active role in producing this document and are committed to the vision and the ongoing implementation of this plan. Contents Foreword 4 Chapter 3: Significance of the site Chapter 5: Issues, challenges & opportunities Appendices 3.1 Introduction 14 5.1 Introduction 28 1 Maps 46 Preface 5 3.2 Statement of Outstanding 5.2 How the issues were gathered 28 I. World Heritage Site Boundary 47 Universal Value 14 5.3 How the issues are used 28 and Setting Vision 6 3.3 Attributes of Outstanding 5.4 Priorities 28 II. Bath Conservation Area 48 Universal Value 15 III. Green Belt 49 Executive Summary 7 5.5 Managing development 29 3.4 Other cultural value 19 5.6 Transport 30 IV. Cotswolds Area of Outstanding 3.5 Natural Value 19 Natural Beauty 50 Chapter 1: Introduction 5.7 Public realm 30 V. Historic Parks and Gardens 51 Chapter 4: Management of the site 5.8 Interpretation 30 1.1 The City of Bath World Heritage Site 8 VI. Scheduled Ancient Monuments 52 5.9 Education 32 1.2 What is World Heritage? 8 4.1 Introduction 20 2 History of the site 54 5.10 Environmental resilience 32 1.3 The need for a Management Plan 8 4.2 Bath World Heritage Site: 3 Justification for inscription 58 5.11 Conservation 32 1.4 Scope and status of the plan 9 The story so far achievements 4 Inventory of selected key elements 5.12 Funding 34 1.5 Preparation and structure of the plan 9 under the previous plan 20 of the site 62 5.13 Research 34 1.6 Aims 9 4.3 Ownership 22 5 Membership and terms of reference 4.4 Other key stakeholders 23 5.14 Accessibility and inclusivity 34 of the World Heritage Site Steering Chapter 2: Description of the site 4.5 Management systems 23 5.15 Visitor management 34 Group 68 2.1 Introduction 10 4.6 International management 24 5.16 Administrative management 35 6 Summary of current Interpretation 2.2 Location 10 4.7 National and local management 24 5.17 Objectives 36 Provision 70 7 Selected bibliography 72 2.3 Boundary 10 4.8 Planning, policy and Chapter 6: Implementation & action plan 2.4 Setting 10 legislative framework 24 6.1 Introduction 38 2.5 Summary history of the site 10 4.9 National Planning Policy 24 6.2 About the actions 38 2.6 A living city – Bath today 12 4.10 Environmental Impact Assessments 24 6.3 Implementation 38 2.7 Condition of the site 13 4.11 Design and Access Statements 24 6.4 Action Plan 39 2.8 Key facts 13 4.12 Heritage Statements/ Heritage Impact Assessments 24 4.13 Local planning policy 24 4.14 The Development Plan 25 4.15 Protection of the Hot Springs 25 4.16 Other management mechanisms 25 4.17 Funding Incentives 25 4.18 Analysis of current management 25 4.19 Risk management 26 4.20 Monitoring 26 4 Management Plan 2016-2022 • Consultation Draft May 2016 Intentionally blank–tobeadded. Foreword Preface from the Chair of the City of Bath World Heritage Site The Bath World Heritage Site is truly a centre of UNESCO’s guidance for the preparation of this third international significance, inscribed by UNESCO in Bath WHS Management Plan, 2016 to 2022 posed 1987 as a living city set within a beautiful and the question of ‘Sustainable Use’. The Steering dramatic landscape. The outstanding universal value Group does naturally recognise the importance of cited by the UNESCO inscription draws upon monitoring all positive and adverse impacts upon the centuries of historical interplay fashioned within the Outstanding Universal Value of the Bath WHS. These natural and built environments set in a landmass site with quality of life benefits for living communities, of just over 29 square kilometres. businesses and visitors alike does imply a unifying Management Plan 2016-2022 • Consultation Draft May 2016 matrix for monitoring UNESCO’s expectations in the Today’s citizens whether they are living and/or coming six year period. 5 working in the World Heritage Site continue to not only influence the on-going maintenance of the site, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all my but also to build upon the attributes bestowed colleagues on the Steering Group for the time, through centuries of historical governance to retain patience and effort they have given to the creation of ownership, security and civic pride. this third WHS Management Plan and on whose behalf I have pleasure of signing off the document. The 2010-2016 Plan sees a WHS gain a rising population, the development of high quality visitor Peter Metcalfe attractions of real benefit to both local people and Chair of the City of Bath World Heritage Site businesses captured within a platform of cultural Steering Group diversity. Employers regularly allude to the attractions of the Bath WHS for job creation and retention. Conservation is also recognised to be in good hands and backed by tested methods of caring for WHS heritage. During 2014 the Bath WHS Steering Group determined to concentrate on identifying the building action blocks to deliver the coming six year plan period. The well attended 2015 Stakeholder Workshop further aided deliberations to finally agree the core priorities for the WHS; namely Managing Development, Transportation, the Public Realm, Interpretation, Education and Environmental Resilience. They are to be found in Chapter 5 of the Consultative WHS Management Plan with the intention to engender a constructive debate. I do commend them for your attention. Vision The Outstanding Universal Value of the City of Bath World Heritage Site will be conserved and enhanced for this and future generations. Bath will be an exemplar of sustainable urban management, striving to balance the needs of an inventive and entrepreneurial 21st century place with the conservation and enhancement of the unique heritage which is of world-wide significance. It will be a centre of excellence for urban heritage management and conservation, Management Plan 2016-2022 • Consultation Draft May 2016 founded on strong and effective partnerships of local, national and international 6 communities and organisations. The impact upon the Outstanding Universal Value will be a key consideration in all proposals for change, recognising that small-scale incremental change can be as influential as major interventions. There will be a strong presumption against development that would harm the Outstanding Universal Value of the World Heritage Site itself, or its setting. Bath will be accessible and enjoyable to all; a site that understands and celebrates its Outstanding Universal Value, beauty and character. World Heritage status will continue to be used to support and further the vitality and wellbeing of the local community. Executive Summary The City of Bath World Heritage Site was inscribed in The economy of the city is changing, with former 1987. The reasons for inscription, or key attributes of traditional employers moving out, and new industry Outstanding Universal Value, can be summarised as: moving in. A significant swathe of the valley floor which formally housed heavy industry is undergoing 1. Roman Archaeology re-development, and this ‘Bath City Riverside’ 2. The hot springs enterprise area will represent the most significant 3. Georgian town planning physical change that the city has seen for a 4. Georgian architecture generation. Delivering this sensitively is a priority. 5. The green setting of the City in a hollow in the hills 6. Georgian architecture reflecting 18th century Moving people about within the historic settlement is social ambitions an on-going challenge. An ambitious transport strategy has recently been adopted to address this Bath World Heritage Site is exceptional in that the and delivery will be within this plan period. inscription covers the entire city, not just the central suburb or individual monuments. This is a situation The public realm of the city, both historic and paralleled in very few other sites world-wide and modern, is often in a poorer condition than the means that all of the needs of a thriving modern city buildings. Addressing and financing a response to Management Plan 2016-2022 • Consultation Draft May 2016 must be balanced with conservation of the this, in the face of diminishing public funds, remains a 7 outstanding heritage. priority issue. The current state of conservation in Bath is very Interpretation and education surrounding the site is good. The city can be described as prosperous, with another priority carried forward. Much work has been few examples of derelict or abandoned buildings. It done to address this, including the prospect of a has a long tradition of caring for its heritage and has World Heritage Interpretation Centre, which now management systems, both locally and nationally, in needs to be delivered. place to ensure this continues. It also has a strong and experienced network of stakeholders committed Finally, environmental issues such as protection of the to delivering the aims of the plan. green setting of Bath, flooding and mineral extraction potentially impacting on the hot springs needs to be The first Bath World Heritage Site Management Plan carefully monitored and handled. (2003 – 2009) concentrated on establishing systems of management and ensuring appropriate policies The priorities of this plan are therefore: and guidelines were in place.
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