Provide feedback on the draft legislation and VAT Notice that will introduce Making Tax Digital for VAT. The draft regulations provide that VAT registered businesses (including charities) must keep an electronic account of information specified in the amended regulations and use an approved form of software to …
Arts Council England ten-year strategy
The Arts Council England is now calling on the public, the arts and culture sector and our other stakeholders to help shape their 10 strategy– including those individuals who don’t participate in the art & culture that the Arts Council currently invests in – about what …
Law Commission consultation on planning law in Wales
The Law Commission has launched a twelve-week public consultation on its proposals to modernise and codify planning law in Wales, with a deadline for responses of 1 March 2018. The proposals would see listed building consent abolished and the issues considered in an application for planning permission.
Local Authority Fair funding review: a review of relative needs and resources
The fair funding review will set new baseline funding allocations for local authorities by delivering an up-to-date assessment of their relative needs and resources, using the best available evidence. The Government is considering a wide range of options for developing an updated funding formula by …
England’s cathedrals’ future governance and funding
A paper published on 17th January from the Church of England’s Cathedrals Working Group sets out new ideas on how cathedrals could be governed and funded. The Working Group was set up by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York after a small number of cathedrals …
Historic England consultation on their conservation principles
The consultation on the revised principles closes on 2 February.
Historic England contested heritage consultation
Difficult or problematic heritage has been in the headlines recently. There are many views on how to best manage this heritage: preservation, reinterpretation, recontextualistion or removal. Historic England is consulting on draft guidance for those who own or manage heritage that now is contested in some way. …
Arts minister steps in to prevent Venetian masterpiece from export
Guardi’s Rialto Bridge with the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi (1768) is at risk of leaving the UK unless a buyer can be found to match the asking price of £26,796,000 (including VAT of £591,000).
British tourism set for record figures in 2018
According to VisitBritain overseas visits to the UK are forecast to break through the 40 million mark for the first time in 2018, reaching 41.7 million, up 4.4 per cent on 2017, which is expected to see 39.9 million total visits.
Heritage Planning Case Database
A reminder that Historic England’s case database can be used to search for appeal and call-in decisions relating to planning permission affecting heritage assets and listed building consent in England.
Mass Resignation of board which Designates US National Historic or Natural Landmarks
Three-quarters of the members of the US National Park System Advisory Board has quit. They were frustrated that the US Interior Secretary refused to meet with them or convene a single meeting of the board in 2017 which is legally mandated to meet twice a …
Protection of shipwrecks
Lord Lingfield asked the Government what plans it had to provide additional funds to monitor and protect shipwrecks in the Exclusive Economic Zone as required by Article 9 of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. Lord Ashton of Hyde responded that ‘The …