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Use this section of the HELM website to improve your knowledge, obtain technical advice or find training activities near you.
HELM Training Programme 2012
HELM offers training for councillors and officers in local authorities and government agencies. Seminars aim to identify the resources available to non-heritage professionals and to demonstrate how the benefits of the historic environment can help to achieve targets. Expert speakers explore regional priorities using local case studies. The HELM Training Programme 2012 lists all of the available HELM courses. >>
English Heritage Courses
English Heritage provides a range of courses, usually delivered in partnership with other organisations at both national and regional levels. Professional Training in the Historic Environment short courses are offered in partnership with Oxford University Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE). Intended for historic environment practitioners, these courses are designed by English Heritage and OUDCE, in association with the Archaeology Training Forum (ATF), the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) and the Institute for Archaeologists (IfA). >>
Related Courses
Historic environment training is available in a variety of formats to suit your needs. Courses are provided by a range of organisations including universities, professional institutions, the Workers Education Association and amenity societies. >>
Craft Skills
There is a shortage of practitioners skilled in the traditional crafts necessary to conserve and restore our historic buildings. The National Heritage Training Group (NHTG) is responsible for implementing a coherent strategy for training and skills provision in this sector. >>
What's New?
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The National Planning Policy Framework was published on 27 March 2012, replacing all the previous Planning Policy Statements, including PPS 5, as well as various other planning guidance. Its central theme is the ‘presumption in favour of sustainable development’, set out in twelve core land-use planning principles which underpin both plan-making and decision-taking.
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These events are aimed at local authority staff (such as archaeological and conservation officers), elected members of local authorities and parish councils, member organisations of Community Safety Partnerships, community groups and voluntary organisations working within the heritage sector and wanting to learn more about the Heritage Crime Programme and Alliance to Reduce Crime against Heritage.
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Free half day sessions will provide an opportunity to discuss English Heritage's interpretation of the NPPF in order to promote understanding of NPPF, its implications for the management of heritage assets, and its use in plan and decision-making. The session will explore the language and terminology used in NPPF and how this differs from the PPS5.