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Representation ID: 66081

Received: 27/06/2014

Respondent: Historic England

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

English Heritage welcomes the inclusion of the Historic Environment Section and the components of a positive strategy for the conservation of the historic environment. However to accord with the provisions of the NPPF the following modifications are recommended.

This policy paraphrases NPPF paragraph 132+, setting out how the degrees of harm to significance should be considered. As these are generic national policy criteria for all designated heritage assets it might be argued that all the Warwick Local Plan's HE policies should also refer to such a statement.

Alternatively the local authority might consider including the following paragraph in the introductory text of the Historic Environment Policy section, and a revised Policy HE4.