PPS 6 Planning Archaeology and the Built Heritage·Page 10·1.14
Intergenerational duty and contemporary heritage creation
Society has a duty to care for inherited heritage for future generations as a living legacy and to add to this legacy by creating high quality architecture, townscape and landscape design that will represent the current age for centuries to come.
Just as there is continuity between past and present, so also there is between present and future. We have a duty to care for what we ourselves have inherited not simply for our own benefit but also with a view to passing it on, as a living legacy, to those who come after us. We can add to our historic legacy by creating examples of high quality architecture and townscape and landscape design which can fittingly represent our own age in the decades and centuries to come.
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