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Plans for Wales’ historic environment revealed
The Welsh Assembly’s heritage minister Alun Ffred Jones has outlined his ambitions for the historic environment in Wales.
The minister made the announcement ahead of his Strategic Statement for the Historic Environment - to be released in September – which will prioritise conserving and protecting the historic environment, encouraging more people to appreciate the historic environment, tackling attitudinal barriers and research and scholarship.
He said: “Helping Welsh citizens to develop a real affinity with our historic environment is an integral part of the Welsh Assembly Government’s approach to sustainability. It follows that any strategy for the historic environment cannot focus narrowly on conserving a small number of select monuments, fenced off and set apart.
“Take our three World Heritage Sites; all of them superb feats of engineering, cutting edge stuff in global terms. But equally important are the stories of the men and women whose lives were changed forever by these sites. These tales of political struggles, huge wealth and grinding poverty need to be told in vivid colours.”
The minister said that people were at the centre of the Assembly’s vision for the historic environment, saying their objective was “to help all people in Wales to gain at least some sense of the environment in which they live”.
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