Published: 26/11/2021
COPELAND residents are being urged to help protect the borough’s heritage through a new listing scheme.
Nominations can be submitted via an online form which will enable members of the public to pinpoint the places they would like to be safeguarded across Cumbria.
Residents and visitors can upload photos and location details of anything from architecture to landscape, field boundaries, parks, gardens, historic street furniture and signs.
These nominations will be considered by a panel made up of council and voluntary heritage group representatives from across Cumbria, and a local list will be created.
Cumbria is one of 22 areas to secure funding from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities for its Local Heritage Listing campaign.
This £1.5 million government campaign is designed to help protect the “commonplace or everyday” heritage assets that are valued by people locally but which do not have any existing protection in their own right under planning law.
Samuel Woodford, Conservation and Design Officer at Copeland Borough Council, said: “Local listing allows people to put forward suggestions for important unrecognised heritage.
“Knowledge is needed on the ground to identify such assets and places so they can be given a measure of recognition.
“Local heritage is part of the historic environment we inherit, and such a list allows us to celebrate and learn from heritage that might otherwise be overlooked.
“People can submit all kinds of entries – buildings, sites, monuments, parks, places, landscapes. I’m really looking forward to seeing what gets discovered.”
Residents can find out more and submit their location to the Local List at www.copeland.gov.uk/cumbria-local-list.
