Transcript Oxford Heritage Plan - the Oxford Strategic Partnership

Oxford
Heritage
Plan
Making
Heritage Work
Oxford has 3 special resources
• People
• Institutions
• Historic environment – The heritage dividend
These make Oxford a World Class City
A plan to provide:
• Understanding of the value and
vulnerability of the resource
• Tools to use the heritage dividend in
your strategies
• Constructive participation in managing it
These are our priorities
OSP and the Heritage Plan
• Key decision-makers for the city’s
heritage
• A cross section of the city’s concerns
• Current and future beneficiaries of
heritage
Talking to people
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OSP - key participants in managing heritage
The heritage enthusiasts
Communities
Oxford Open Doors
Where are we now?
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The Heritage Plan Portal
Scoping Report
Thematic Reviews
Evidence base
Where do we want to be?
• The economic value of heritage to the
city is understood and appreciated
• New opportunities for heritage to add to
our economy are realised
Where do we want to be?
• We recognise the value of heritage assets
to the identity and cohesion of our
communities
• Our management of heritage assets sustains
their value to the community and builds
belonging and integration
Where do we want to be?
• Using the embodied energy in the historic
environment, we reduce our contributions to climate
change
• Our approach to energy efficiency and renewables is
creative and sustains or enhances the heritage
dividend
• Our management of trees, soil and water reduce the
impacts of climate change
Where do we want to be?
• We understand and sustain the benefit of
the city’s historic landscape to its
people’s health
• We use the historic landscape of the city
as a resource to exercise the mind and
body
Where do we want to be?
• We understand the positive character of established
residential areas and the opportunities to enhance
them
• Barton extension
• Any underused historic buildings become distinctive
and attractive new homes at the centre of strong
communities
How are we getting there?
• The Heritage Plan
Portal
• The Evidence Studies
• Tools
Reviewing our management tools
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Have our policies kept pace with change?
Are they helping us achieve more?
How well are we communicating?
How helpful is what we say?
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