Historic Environment Scotland Flashcards
What is Scotland’s Historic Environment Strategy?
‘Our Past Our Future’
- Sets out how the historic environment will be managed
- Ensures the historic environment is cared for, valued, enchanced
How is HES set up and governed?
- Non-departmental body with charitable status
- Governed by a board of trustees
How are trustees and board members appointed
- Trustees appointed by Scottish Ministers following an open process
- Board are appointed for a term between 2-4 years. May be reappointed but cannot be appointed for over 8 years
How many board members are there? Are they paid?
- 10-15 members
- Entitled to fees in line with Scottish Government Pay Policy
What are HES responsible for?
- More than 300 properties of national importance
- Internationally significant collections including more than 5 million drawings, photographs, negatives, and manuscripts
- 20 million aerial images of locations across the world
What does HES do (overview)? Which different ‘areas’ do they work in?
- Seek to grow understanding of the historic environment through research, survey, and recording - and then share the information online
- Invests £13 million a year in national and local organisations, supporting building repairs, ancient monumnets, archaeological work, conservation area regeneration scheme, and voluntary sector
Conservation & CARS
- Conservation experts provide guidance, training, and technical research into Scotland’s built environment
- CARS: Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme: offer a grant of up to £2 million to support cohesive heritage-focused community and economic growth projects within conservation areas across Scotland
- Expect CARS to deliver a combination of larger building repair projects, small third party grant schemes funding private repairs, activities to promote community engagement, and training for professionals
- Been in operation since 2007 and awarded £40m+ to date
Outreach
Outreach programme seeks to promote community and individual learning engagement with Scotland’s heritage
Government
Contribute to the Scottish Governments strategy to tackle climate change and reduce the carbon footprint
HES repair grant
Support costs of conservation-standard repair projects for buildings, places of worship, or ancient monuments which are of special architectural, historic, or archaeological interset
HES stats
- 300+ properties and sites in care
- 3.3 million visitors in 2023
- 5+ million archives
- 10s of milllions of aerial photos
- 184,000 members
- £49.7mill commercial income per year
- 1500 staff across Scotland
Chief Executive
Katerina Brown
HES developmental management overview: 3 factors
- Statutory consultee for planning applications for works affecting category A listed buidings, scheduled monuments, historic marine protected areas, and more
- Also consult on projects which requre an environmental impact assessment
- Work with key agencies to ensure that their assessment of planning applications is accurate and offers training to improve understanding of issues facing the historic environment
Planning performance framework report 2023-24
- Monitored 851 scheduled monuments with 90% in satisfactory condition
- Spent £13.76 million on Scotland’s heritage
- Supported 341 organisations and 629 projects over last 6 years
- 4.9% of projects removed buildings from the at risk list
- 74% of allocations are capital projects - critical repair, e.g. roof leaks
- 6.34% were in Scotland’s most deprived areas
who recieves HES funding grants
- Charities are the primary recipients
- Archaeology spending is only 5% of the budget
