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The Importance of World Heritage Sites
4.1NI-wide·PPS 6 Planning Archaeology and the Built Heritage
The criteria for selection of cultural and natural sites of outstanding universal value to be included in the World Heritage List are contained in the "Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of
world-heritagesite-planningPolicy BH 5: The Protection of World Heritage Sites
BH 5NI-wide·PPS 6 Planning Archaeology and the Built Heritage
The Department will operate a presumption in favour of the preservation of World Heritage Sites. Development which would adversely affect such sites or the integrity of their settings will not be perm
world-heritagesite-planningAssessment of Development Affecting World Heritage Sites
4.2NI-wide·PPS 6 Planning Archaeology and the Built Heritage
World Heritage Sites are places or buildings of outstanding universal value, and accordingly the Department attaches great weight to the need to protect them for the benefit of future generations as w
world-heritagesite-planningInterim Protection for Giant's Causeway
4.3NI-wide·PPS 6 Planning Archaeology and the Built Heritage
There is currently only one World Heritage Site in Northern Ireland, the Giant's Causeway, the setting of which has not yet been formally identified by the Department. As an interim measure until such
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