UK to put forward ‘fewer and fitter’ places for future UNESCO World Heritage Site designation
The UK Government has announced that in future it will be putting forward fewer sites for consideration by UNESCO for World Heritage status, with a streamlined application system to help ensure success.
The rationalised process is part of a competition to find more cultural and natural heritage places of global importance, which are fit to become future UK World Heritage Sites.
The UK National Commission for UNESCO welcomes the announcement from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to draw up a new UK Tentative List for nominations to the UNESCO World Heritage List. The UK National Commission supports the introduction of a shorter and more focused list.”
Sue Davies, Chair of the UK National Commission (UKNC) Culture Committee
Local authorities, and others, throughout the UK including the Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies will have the opportunity to nominate such sites for assessment by an independent expert panel. A new ‘Tentative List’ of candidate sites will then be drawn up for submission to UNESCO in 2011, with the first nomination going forward from 2012. Those on the last UK Tentative List, drawn up in 1999, which have not so far gone forward for consideration by UNESCO, will be able to apply again for inclusion on the new list.
The UKNC contributed to the Government’s recent review of its UK World Heritage Policy, which was launched in December 2008. The aim of the consultation was to help determine whether the UK should continue to nominate sites for World Heritage status and what more we should do for existing sites.
Read more about the UKNC’s input to the consultation here.
Read more about the UK Government’s announcement here.
Written: 22/01/2010 , last modified: 22/01/2010
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