World Heritage Sites
(asked on 7th June 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the committee assessing World Heritage Site bids will place equal value on the social, architectural and archaeological heritage of a location.
This question was answered on 13th June 2022
The Independent Expert Panel assessing bids for the UK’s Tentative List will use criteria based on UNESCO’s criteria for selection to the World Heritage List.
These require sites to be of outstanding universal value and meet at least one of ten criteria, which identify a wide range of values a location can demonstrate.