IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features Designing Buildings’ Newsletter, circulated to 15,000 registered users, headlining the IHBC’s 2021 Yearbook article on ‘Levelling Up’ by IHBC trustee and Communication Secretary Dave Chetwyn.
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Dave Chetwyn writes:
Levelling up is currently a much-used, but rather vague term, described by a BBC Today programmepresenter as a phrase that means everything and nothing at the same time. Discussion of levelling uphas included diverse subjects like transport and infrastructure, planning, housing, jobs, education and skills….
To help in answering this question, it may be useful to attempt a definition of levelling up as measuresto tackle geographical economic inequalities….
From my own experience these geographical economic variations are often reflected in the attitude of communities, businesses and plan-making bodies to heritage. In high growth areas, there is often a more protectionist perspective and sometimes a perception that heritage is a barrier to growth. In under-performing areas, heritage is often viewed as a means to achieving economic development and regeneration….
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