Edinburgh World Heritage Flashcards
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Origin of EWH, size
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- Old and new towns of Edinburgh became WHS in 1995
- 4.5km, 4500 buildings, ancient monuments, landscapes, conservation areas
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Why is Edinburgh a WHS
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- Celebrated as a city of international importance
- Ancient royal burgh, medieval old town, C18th and C19th new town
3
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Who manages Edinburgh
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- EWH
- City of Edinburgh Council
- HES
4
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Governance
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8 board members
5
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How many projects
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1500
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2016 management reflection
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- Management asked the public to reflect on Edinburgh’s WHS and issues related
- The themes that scored the lowest became the main focus of a 5 year action plan:
1) Care and maintenance
2) Control and guidance
3) Awareness of WHS status
4) Contribution of new development
5) Visitor Management
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5 year plan: Care and maintenance
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- Objective: ensure ongoing investment in conservation
- Action: raise awareness of grants and public realm, support research demonstrating WHS best practice
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5 year plan: Control and Guidance
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- Objective: improve tools for sustaining outstanding universal value, enforce planning laws, protect skyline
- Action: ensure OUV of the site is taken into account, integrate WHS values into city wide decisions
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5 year plan: Awareness of the WHS status
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- Objective: Co-ordinate actions to ensure a broad understanding of WHS
- Action: clarify the qualities of WHS to help understand OUVs, publicises actions taken, produce events
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5 year plan: Contribution of new development
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- Objective: ensure new development is high quality, architecture embraces WHS context
- Action: Provide guidance on OUV use in the planning process, advocate importance of the skyline study, influence new developments positively
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5 year plan: Visitor Management
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- Objective: Advocate for sustainable tourism within WHS and the city in response to conserns over concentration of visitors on the royal mile, tourist shops, inform signage
- Action: explain the value of WHS to tourism industry and business community, encourage street cleanliness via waste and cleaning improvements plan, promote importance of sustainable tourism
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Grant Programme -
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- Funding programme enables vital conservation and repair throughout the city’s historic buildings and public spaces
- Targeted to support communitis, build environmental capacity, and enable economic recovery
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Available Grants
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- Building Conservation and Repair
- Historic Shop Front Improvements
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Available Grants: Building conservation and repair
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- Funding stonework for roofs, limework, restoring original architectural details, repair of original windows
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Available Grants: Historic shop window
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- Can fund fees for professional services to develop a sympathetic shop design
- construction costs associated with the shopfront improvements
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Available Grants: Community public spaces
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- Protet, enhance, educate, support wellbeing
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Available Grants: Climate emergency
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- Energy efficiency improvements to historic windows etc
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How do the grants work
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- EWHS recieves funding from the City Heritage Trust Grant Scheme and then distributes it through grants
- Programmes designed to protect the integrity of the historic city by encouraging conservation
- Eligible to apply if you or an organisation own a historic property or part, or as a tenant with written landlord consent
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2023-2026 funding priorities
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- Agreed with HES and set every 3 years
- Focus on: canongate, cowgate, lothian rd, tollcross, south bridge, forest rd
- Priority buildings: tenements in multiple ownership, historic storefronts
- Impact criteria: comprehensive external reparirs to historic buildings using traditional materials and conservation techniques
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Climate change policies
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- Increasing the resilience of WHS against current and future impacts of climate change
- (flooding, overheating, inappropriate response actions)
- Facilitating sensetive traditions towards net-zero in the WHS
- Reduction of carbon emissions in historic buildings
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Climate Change - Manifesto
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- September 2020
- EWH published a manifesto which proposes key principles to address these challenges, whilst also stressing the imporance of preserving the heritage values
- Calls for the historic environment to be at the centre of the city’s response to climate change
- bins and trees
- Energy retrofit of traditional buildings in Ediburgh
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Neighbourhood focus
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- Launched June 2022
- Aims to maximise community and public value
- Empower communities to protect thier heritage
- Make buildings more energy efficient through sensetive, virtually unobtrusive means
- Respond to local needs to make the area a better place to live and do business
- Offers grants to residents and business ownsers and advice on external conservation and repair, community realm work, climate change improvements
