Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun - UNESCO ...

f. Agreed plans related to property
The core area surrounding the mine and all buffer zones are classified as areas of
national interest for heritage conservation. These national interests are defined in a
resolution adopted by the National Heritage Board on 5th November 1987. This
means that the areas are protected under the provisions of Chap. 3 of the
Environmental Code. In the Swedish planning system, the Environmental Code
interacts with the Planning and Building Act. The latter makes it the duty of the
municipality to give an account of its places of national interest in its municipal
comprehensive plan and to indicate in that plan how the cultural values are to be
secured. The comprehensive plan for the centre of Falun was adopted in 1998.
Several detailed development plans have been compiled for all buffer zones. These
contain provisions for the protection of settlement of historic interest. Outside the
buffer zones as well, the sum total of settlement is mainly subject to detailed
development plans.
A municipal programme of preservation for the centre of Falun was compiled in
1989 through the agency of the Dalarnas Museum. This programme contains a
detailed classification of all buildings in the old town centre.
During 1998 the Municipality of Falun produced a cultural environment programme
for the whole of the municipality, indicating how cultural values in the landscape and
settlement are to be preserved. All continuous settlement within the buffer zones or
bordering on them is subject to detailed development plans (see map at page 4).
Protective provisions are issued by the Municipality of Falun, as a matter of regular
practice, in its detailed planning for settlement of historic interest. The Dalarna
County Administrative Board is the supervisory authority charged with inspecting
and approving comprehensive and detailed planning by the municipality.
The whole of the core area, comprising the mine and its appurtenant buildings and
structures of historic interest, is a protected heritage site under a resolution adopted
by the County Administrative Board on 20th March 1995. The decision to declare
this area a heritage site was made by authority of Chap. 3, Section 1 of the National
Heritage Act (SFS 1988:950). The supervisory authority is the Dalarna County
Administrative Board.
Within the buffer zones there are another 13 heritage sites which are privately or
municipally owned and one which is State-owned. In addition, four buildings are
being considered for heritage site designation. The Dalarna County Administrative
Board is the supervisory authority for privately- and municipally-owned heritage
sites, the National Heritage Board for the State-owned site.
The centrally situated buffer zone includes two churches of great importance for the
cultural environment. These are protected under the provisions of Chap. 4 of the
National Heritage Act (SFS 1989:950). The supervisory authority is the Dalarna
County Administrative Board.
All derelict cultural remains and structures from past ages come under general
protection as archaeological remains through the provisions of Chap. 2 in the
National Heritage Act (SFS 1989:950). Archaeological remains have strong legal
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