Written Evidence May. 21 2024
Inquiry: High streets in towns and small citiesFound: stakeholders to help create, shape, manage and promote public spaces such as high streets, parks, heritage
May. 21 2024
Source Page: Major levelling up regeneration programme rolled out in TorbayFound: . £500,000 to transform vacant buildings into cultural and creative spaces, to nurture and showcase local
May. 21 2024
Source Page: UK policy framework for managing radioactive substances and nuclear decommissioning. 148p.Found: • gathering information to understand the existing geographic, social, economic, environmental, cultural
Engagement document May. 20 2024
Committee: Built Environment CommitteeFound: The space made for busking musicians was highlighted as a positive cultural element of pedestrianisation
May. 20 2024
Source Page: Social and Economic Impact Assessments for Fisheries Management Decisions {MMO1384}Found: The aim is to improve the consideration of wider economic and social impacts, including cultural and
May. 20 2024
Source Page: Social and Economic Impact Assessments for Fisheries Management Decisions {MMO1384}Found: Wider social and cultural importance of the fishery highlighted.
Asked by: Lord Bishop of Newcastle (Bishops - Bishops)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what funding, other than flood and coastal erosion risk management grant-in-aid, they make available to protect heritage assets and community spaces at risk from coastal erosion.
Answered by Lord Douglas-Miller - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Government is investing £5.6 billion between 2021 and 2027 to better protect communities across England from flooding and coastal erosion. This includes the £200 million Flood and Coastal Innovation Programme (FCIP). As part of FCIP, Ministers have allocated £36m over six years, to develop a ‘Coastal Transition Accelerator Programme’ to trial opportunities, and innovative practical actions, in a small number of coastal areas at significant risk of coastal erosion, to transition and adapt to a changing climate. The practical adaptation actions will likely include activities that support and facilitate the managed transition of property and facilities at risk of coast erosion providing an anticipatory approach in advance of coastal change.
The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF), arm’s length body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, awarded a £500,000 grant to English Heritage's Hurst Castle Stabilisation Feasibility Project (see attached) in 2022 to survey damage from coastal erosion and develop a plan to protect the castle for the long term. Further details of accessing NHMF grants can be found on the National Heritage Memorial Fund website.
Guidance on managing the impacts of coastal erosion on heritage features can be found on Historic England's website, alongside details of available grants for heritage.
The Third National Adaptation Programme (see attached) details how the Government and its agencies plan to protect cultural heritage from a changing climate, including implications for our coastal heritage due to flooding and coastal erosion.
Found: The term ‘Gypsies and Travellers’ encompasses a range of ethnic and cultural groups, many of which practice
Mentions:
1: Lord Whitby (Con - Life peer) true of lessons from the levelling-up fund, the towns fund, the future high streets fund, high street heritage - Speech Link
2: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) Jack was the cabinet member for regeneration, heritage and transport on Stoke-on-Trent Council before - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Then there is the challenge of how we preserve heritage and history, and the constant challenge of successive - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord Bishop of Newcastle (Bishops - Bishops)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what funding they have made available to protect churchyards from coastal erosion where (1) the church is of historical significance, or (2) family members of those recently buried in the churchyard reside in the local community.
Answered by Lord Douglas-Miller - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Government is investing £5.6 billion between 2021 and 2027 to better protect communities across England from flooding and coastal erosion. This investment includes a record £5.2 billion capital investment programme, as well as the £200 million Flood and Coastal Innovation Programme (FCIP).
Schemes are valued and prioritised using the Government’s Partnership Funding policy, with the amount of funding a scheme can attract dependent on the damages it will avoid and the benefits it will deliver. The impact on heritage assets and churchyards are included as part of this calculation.
In areas where a heritage asset is assessed to be invaluable, only schemes protecting the asset can be shortlisted.
The Third National Adaptation Programme details how Government and its agencies plan to protect cultural heritage from a changing climate, including implications for our coastal heritage due to flooding and coastal erosion.
Guidance on managing the impacts of coastal erosion on heritage features can be found on Historic England's website, alongside details of available grants for heritage.