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10 | Managing and Protecting our Historic Environment What is Changing? As the designating body, information on scheduled monuments is available online from Historic Scotland’s website: http://data.historicscotland.gov.uk. Here you can download maps and copies of the legal documentation for each scheduled monument, as well as find out about other types of designation, such as listing. If you do not have access to the web, then you can request this information from Historic Scotland direct. Other sources of information on scheduled monuments are as follows: • Scheduling documents are available to anyone searching the Register of Sasines or the Land Register for the title to a property. • Historic Scotland also makes its data available on PASTMAP , a website jointly developed with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), where you can search for information on Scotland’s historic environment from multiple sources. What is Scheduled Monument Consent (SMC)? Once a monument is scheduled, the prior written permission of Scottish Ministers is required for most works, including repairs. This is a process known as scheduled monument consent. In 2009/10 Historic Scotland processed 238 applications for SMC. If a monument is both listed and scheduled, only SMC is required for any relevant work. Development close to a scheduled monument which may have an adverse impact on its physical setting is a material consideration in the planning system. Any person carrying out unauthorised works or allowing unauthorised works to be carried out on a scheduled monument, such as the demolition or destruction of a scheduled monument without consent, is guilty of a criminal offence. What is the ‘Class Consents Order’? Under the Ancient Monuments (Class Consents) (Scotland) Order 1996 (the ‘Class Consents Order’), consent is automatically conferred on certain works affecting scheduled monuments, with no need to obtain specific written SMC in each case. For example, if ploughing was taking place on the monument in a 10-year period up to the date when the works commence, then similar ploughing may continue without SMC. However, not all agricultural activity is automatically covered by class consents. It is important to note that most changes to an earlier agricultural regime (for example, deeper ploughing, sub-soiling or drainage works) would need SMC. Conversely, a change of use from ploughing to pasture would not require SMC.
The Historic Environment (Amendment) (Scotland) Act Explained | 11 Map showing the location of Scotland’s scheduled monuments n Scheduled monument (c) Crown copyright and database right [2010]. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100017509.
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