Oculus September 2021 has been released and should soon be in your email.
(Oculus is the Historic Places Aotearoa newsletter.)
POSTPONED: Historic Places Aotearoa & ICOMOS Joint Conference 2021
ICOMOS and HPA have decided to postpone our planned Joint Conference that was to be held in Auckland on 9th & 10th October.
The organisers are looking at arranging and confirming a new date as soon they can ascertain progress in the next fews weeks. More details to come.
Submission to the Environment Committee Inquiry on the Natural and Built Environments Bill: Parliamentary Paper HPA / ICOMOS NZ JOINT SUBMISSION
You can download the Historic Places Aotearoa / ICOMOS Joint Submission at the following link:
The following is a link to all the Submission made to the Environment Committee:
RMA Reform (2021)- Some Useful Background Reading
UK National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) was published in July 2021.
This revised national framework promotes 'beauty at the heart of the planning system’, in an effort to create ‘beautiful, environmentally sustainable, and life-enhancing communities’.
Link below:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vision-for-building-beautiful-places-set-out-at-landmark-design-event
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Historic England’s has recently published
‘Theres no place like old homes - Re-use and Recycle to Reduce Carbon’, Historic England (2019).
This research investigates the enormous potential benefits of recycling and adaptively reusing our existing building stock, rather than wastefully pulling buildings down and rebuilding them. "The longer a building and its component parts last, the less embodied carbon is expended over the life of the building.”
You can download the PDF at the following link:
https://historicengland.org.uk/content/heritage-counts/pub/2019/hc2019-re-use-recycle-to-reduce-carbon/