MILESTONE REACHED AS FIRST PART OF WORLD HERITAGE SITE BID IS SENT OFF TO GOVERNMENT |
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A major milestone has been reached by the team submitting Cornwall & West Devon’s World Heritage Site Bid. The first part of the Bid – the Nomination Document – is being sent off to the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) for approval. The Nomination Document puts forward the case for the outstanding international importance of Cornish mining and states why the 10 areas within the Bid should be granted World Heritage Site Status. The Document has taken nearly three years to produce due to the sheer scale of research and writing involved. Before being submitted to DCMS, the Nomination Document has undergone extensive public consultation and had to be approved by the World Heritage Site Partnership, who gave the green light last week. Deborah Boden, World Heritage Site Co-ordinator said, ‘We were delighted with the responses received during the recent public consultation exercise, and we are grateful to all those who took the time to send us their thoughts on the Nomination Document. The Bid has met with widespread support from people in Cornwall and West Devon, and the Bid Partnership have now updated the document to reflect their views. It will now be considered and endorsed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport before being sent on to UNESCO.” DCMS will prepare a Ministerial foreword on behalf of Heritage Minister, Lord McIntosh, before the final submission is sent to UNESCO - the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation - who will assess the Bid in 2005. The second part of the Bid, the Management Plan, is now being amended in response to public comments, and will be approved by the Partnership at its meeting on 25 November. NOTES TO EDITORS:
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