Protecting our Heritage Assets: Community involvement in recording and regenerating local heritage

As the number of conservation officers in local authorities continues to decline, this seminar looked at the ways in which local communities can be more involved in heritage protection.  The idea of ‘networked heritage’ shows that our heritage, identity and place are closely linked, and by being more involved in our local heritage, we can both support it and benefit from it. This involvement can take many forms – from undertaking local history studies to support conservation area appraisals, surveying for Heritage at Risk registers, using toolkits to prepare local heritage asset lists, preparing heritage trails to develop the visitor economy and increase awareness of a place’s story, to developing visions for new regeneration proposals. The workshop explored the significance of our built heritage and how to develop strategies for its preservation.

Programme
Networked Heritage – Oluwaseun Soyemi, National Lottery Heritage Fund
Undertaking a Conservation Area Appraisal – Susy Shearer, Windsor Neighbourhood Plan Forum (not available)
Telling your place’s Story- Rafi Ilivitzky, TrailTale
How local authorities can use volunteers – Richard Tuffrey, formerly High Peak Borough Council
Using toolkits to support greater involvement – Louise Thomas, HTVF
Getting help on a community-led heritage project – Benjamin Parker, Heritage Trust Network (HTN)
Workshop – Benjamin Parker, HTN
Peckham Coal Line: What community-led visions can do – Colin Sterling, Peckham Coal Line Steering Group (not available)

This event was kindly sponsored by TrailTale

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