REVIT Heritage Report.pdf
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Torfaen County Borough Council<br />
<strong>REVIT</strong>: A Review of the Conservation of Industrial <strong>Heritage</strong> Assets on Brownfield Sites<br />
receive a certain amount of compensation, in the form of tax relief, for the<br />
additional burden of maintaining the cultural heritage.<br />
3.8.8 Depending on each federal state, the administration is either a two-or three-tier<br />
system. Cultural heritage institutions may be: "lower heritage conservation<br />
authorities", chiefly found at district level, but also at municipal level; "higher<br />
heritage conservation authorities" at state level, but found only in the larger<br />
states; and finally the "superior heritage conservation authority", which is a<br />
State Ministry with responsibility for cultural affairs<br />
3.8.9 Stuttgart is located in Baden-Württemberg, which is a Federal Bundesländer<br />
divided into four regions with Stuttgart as a Federal capital and Administrative<br />
District in its own right.<br />
3.8.10 The federal states’ laws on cultural heritage protection provide for a central<br />
specialised authority, the National Monument Office (Landesdenkmalamt or<br />
LDA), in each federal state.<br />
3.8.11 The National Monument Office of Baden-Württemberg is the central authority<br />
responsible for all specific issues relating to cultural heritage in the region and<br />
is only subject to the control of the supreme cultural heritage protection<br />
authority.<br />
3.8.12 The LDA is divided into the Department of Building and Art Monument care,<br />
the Department of Archaeological Care of Monuments and the of Department<br />
administration and inventory services.<br />
3.8.13 The responsibilities of the LDA involve advising the lower cultural heritage<br />
authorities (communes), the owners of monuments and historic buildings and<br />
drawing up guidance on all issues relating to the conservation and protection<br />
of the cultural heritage. The LDA represents the interests of cultural heritage<br />
conservation in respect of all public planning and development projects and<br />
maintains a list of monuments and historic buildings.<br />
3.8.14 The higher cultural heritage authorities (district governments) exercise<br />
technical control over the lower cultural heritage authorities. They are<br />
responsible for monuments and historic buildings under the trusteeship of the<br />
Federal Government, or of the federal states and, sometimes, for drawing-up<br />
and updating lists of monuments and historic buildings.<br />
3.8.15 The lower cultural heritage authorities (rural districts and communes) are<br />
generally responsible for the practical implementation of cultural heritage<br />
conservation and protection. This means they are the main point of contact for<br />
all inquiries, applications and appeals.<br />
3.9 Legal Background<br />
3.9.1 The main national legal protection is the Article Act (artikelgesetz) of 1980<br />
governing the incorporation of cultural heritage protection into Federal Law.<br />
This means cultural heritage protection has been integrated into a number of<br />
federal laws (legislation governing regional planning, waterways, federal laws<br />
governing nature conservation, telecommunications laws etc.) based on the<br />
information gained during, and obligations ensuing, from the European<br />
<strong>Heritage</strong> Conservation Year in 1975. A recommendation issued by the<br />
German National Committee for Monument Protection (Deutsche<br />
Nationalkomitee für Denkmalschutz) provided the basis for the Article Act.<br />
3.9.2 In addition national Planning Legislation of 1991 stipulates that cultural<br />
heritage must be taken into consideration in urban development plans and this<br />
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