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Resources/Policy/Panels/Rural |
The IHBC Rural Panel need to closely
monitor all key DEFRA policies, delivered by Natural England, in order
to assess the benefit for the conservation of the historic environment,
and in particular historic buildings, in rural areas. YOUR INPUT INTO
THIS IS VERY MUCH WELCOMED. The policies include all the Environmental
Stewardship (ES) schemes, including Entry Level Stewardship (ELS) and
Higher Level Stewardship (HLS), including organic farming (OELS etc).
HLS is actively targeted to the restoration of historic buildings.
These funds in turn are ‘targeted’ and methodologies for doing this are
under close scrutiny by Natural England. In addition the methodology
for working farmers to make an application appear challenging.
There are a great many changes afoot in our rural areas, and although
farming has known many changes in the last 1000 years the countryside
as we know it is certainly under stress. IHBC members are invited to
contact me if
a) they have any case histories
on the operation of the grant schemes which indicate their success or
otherwise
b) if they have a burning desire to be
part of an E mail operated Rural Panel that can operate on a nationwide
basis to assist in monitoring the situation as regards the conservation
of the rural historic environment and historic buildings in particular.
Contact E mails are
cryan@bournemouth.ac.uk
cryan@north-dorset.gov.uk
Carole Ryan
IHBC Rural policy representative