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Stephen Levrant : Heritage Architecture
What is meant by the term public
benefits?
Public benefits may follow from many developments and could
be anything that delivers
economic, social or environmental
progress
[NPPG: Benefits =
social, cultural, economic and environmental
Public benefits should flow from the proposed development.
They should be of a nature or scale to be of benefit to the
public at large and should not just be a private benefit.
However, benefits do not always have to be visible or
accessible to the public in order to be genuine public benefits.
Public benefits may include heritage benefits, such as:
sustaining or enhancing the significance of a heritage asset
and the contribution of its setting
reducing or removing risks to a heritage asset
securing the optimum viable use of a heritage asset in
support of its long term conservation