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Consultation response –

 

 

 

·         Consultation response – Managing change in the Historic Environment (08/12/09)

 

·         Consultation response - Consultation on the Removal of the Duty of Planning Authorities to Notify Historic Scotland (25/09/09)

 

·         Consultation response -  Mineral extraction in harbour areas (20/08/09)

 

·         Consultation response - The Ancient Monuments and Listed Buildings (Amendment) (Scotland) draft Bill (19/08/09)

 

·         Consultation response - SPP (24/06/09)

 

·         Written evidence on the Marine Bill (11/06/09)

           

·         News release – Heritage investment reaps economic rewards (18/05/09)

 

·         BEFS response to HEACS report and recommendations on the infrastructure of the historic environment sector: letter and annex (16/03/09)

HEACS Report and Recommendations on the infrastructure of the historic environment: Paper outlining the initial comments and a preliminary view by BEFS Board (30/01/09)

Copy of HEACS Report: http://www.heacs.org.uk/newsreleases/2008/infrastructure.htm

 

 

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Working Groups

The strategic theme of BEFS is to focus on the cross-connections between all elements of the built environment; on the inter-relationships between the parts that make the whole. This theme is being developed through a three strand approach which will support three working groups – on urban design, on the historic environment and on sustainable development and the built environment. The purpose of the groups is to take the lead within the wider Forum on key issues within these three areas. This is with a view to developing a collective agenda for stakeholders around these three strands.
Urban Design Working Group

REMIT: There is currently a lack of inter-disciplinary focus on urban design issues at a strategic level within Scotland. To address this gap, the group will explore issues associated with urban design, focussing in particular on practical aspects, and promote these issues to a wide audience of stakeholders including non-governmental organisations, civil servants and MSPs in Scotland. Evolving out of the Urban Design Alliance in Scotland, this group re-convened in June 2006, and has identified the following key areas of activity:

 

  • Arrange study visits with multi-disciplinary attendance to develop awareness and promote best practice
  • Arrange workshops with multi-disciplinary attendance to discuss issues of common interest
  • Maintain a reactive role in responding as a BEFS cross-disciplinary working group to government consultations with implications for urban design
  • Develop discrete project activities.
Historic Environment Working Group

REMIT: The remit of HEWG is to:

  • understand what our historic environment brings to Scotland’s places,
  • raise the profile of our historic environment by promoting it’s value within a broader context,
  • and ensure the effective management and care of our historic environment.

 

HEWG will do this by leading on historic environment issues within BEFS; identifying and monitoring issues, shaping developing thinking on policy, legislation and practice and championing key issues, all within the context of the holistic place-making focus of the Forum.

Sustainable Development Working Group

This strand of activity is being developed. A workshop is currently being planned which will consider the forthcoming consultation on the energy performance of non-domestic buildings.