Built Heritage Policy Aims

The LDP policies for the built heritage aim to: • Preserve, maintain and where possible enhance the city's historic environment through its ongoing preservation and control to ensure that development responds and is sympathetic to its character; • Manage change in such a way that preserves, maintains and where possible enhances the city's historic environment for the enjoyment of current and future generations of the city's inhabitants; • To improve the quality and contextual appropriateness of development affecting the city's heritage assets consistent with the overall aim of promoting local distinctiveness, whilst ensuring the ongoing productive use of these assets; and • Promotion of the tourism value of the city's unique heritage and historic environment.