Heritage Conservation through Planning: A Comparison of Policies and Principles in England and China

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Table 1. Institutional contexts of conservation planning in England and China

	England	China
Responsible authorities for conservation planning	Local Planning Authority; Historical England (HE);	Local Planning Department; Local Bureau of Cultural Relics; National Bureau of Cultural Relics (BCR); Ministry of Housing and Urban-rural Development;
Types of legal documents	Local Plan; Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Plan; HE Practice Advice; National Planning Policy Guidance; Other non-statutory guidance document;	Local Master Plan; Local Conservation Plans; Local Master Urban Design Plans; National guidelines and standard;
Ways to manage heritage	Listed Buildings; Conservation Areas; World Heritage Sites; Local Lists of Heritage Assets; Intangible heritage scheduled monuments and registered gardens, parks and battlefields;	Listed Buildings or artefacts; Conservation Areas and buffer zones; World Heritage Site; Historic and Cultural Cities, towns and villages (national listing) Intangible heritage;
High-level Conservation Principles	Historical environment as shared resource; Everyone participating in sustaining the historic environment; understanding the significance; sustaining the value of significance; reasonable transparent consistent decision-making about change; documenting and learning from decisions;	China Principles by ICOMOS China
Overarching heritage values	Evidential, historic, aesthetic and communal values	Historical, artistic and scientific values

Figure 1. The initial conservation area in central Chester

Source: Dennier (1975, p. 386)

Figure 2. The current conservation area in central Chester

Source: http://maps.cheshire.gov.uk/CWAC/interactivemapping/#

Figure 3. Examples of heritage assets and their setting in Chester (Source: photography by C. Sykes in Feb 2020).

Figure 4. Restored former cinema – the Chester storyhouse (Source: photography by C. Sykes in Feb 2020).

Figure 5. The conservation core area of Qingyan (in red) and its development control area (in yellow) and the character coordinated area (in blue)

Source: The Conservation Plan of Qingyan, 1999

Figure 6. Qingyan town with the surrounding natural environment

Source: Author’s own photo

Figure 7. Cultural performance at the cross streets of Qingyan. The streets are packed with tourists

Source: Author’s own photo

Figure 8. The current tourist routes (left) and planned routes (right)

Source: the Master Urban Design for the Town’s Conservation and Development, 2005

Dennier, A. (1975) Chester – conservation in practice, Town Planning Review, 46/4, pp. 383–394. doi: https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.46.4.86r7x03w132700k0

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