The following press release from the Department of Culture - forwarded in
part from the Britarch list - outlines the state of play in relation to
submission of sites for World Heritage status.

DCMS/209 

30 July 1999

CHRIS SMITH ANNOUNCES FORMAL PUBLICATION OF LIST
OF POTENTIAL WORLD HERITAGE SITE NOMINATIONS

Culture Secretary Chris Smith today announced the formal publication 
of the Tentative List of UK's nominations for World Heritage status. 
This important document contains descriptions and indicative maps of 
each of the 25 UK sites (including three in the UK's Overseas 
Territories) and the UNESCO criteria which each site meets. The first
two sites, the Historic Town of St George and Related Fortification, 
Bermuda and the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape in South Wales, have 
recently been formally nominated. Their assessment by UNESCO will 
take 18 months, and if successful, they will be added to the World 
Heritage List in December 2000.

Chris Smith said:

"I am delighted that after a long process of consultation we have 
submitted this important document to UNESCO. The formal publication
of the Tentative List - the UK's first since 1986 - marks a further 
step in demonstrating our commitment to UNESCO and the World 
Heritage Convention."

"In preparing the United Kingdom's new Tentative list we have 
included places of truly universal significance which we hope will 
help widen the perception of World Heritage in the UK beyond purely 
the monumental and architectural."

"The Natural Sites we have selected reflect the quality of our 
natural environment, while many of the cultural sites highlight our 
rich industrial and maritime heritage. The process of 
industrialisation has changed and moulded the way in which all the 
people of the world now live. That process began here in Britain and 
it is right that it should be marked more prominently in the World 
Heritage List"

The following mining related sites - examples of Industrialisation - are
included in the list.

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, Torfaen
Cornish Mining Industry

'Today's publication of World Heritage Sites - The Tentative List
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland follows
the announcement by the Secretary of State in April (News Release
DCMS 86/99) of the sites to comprise the new Tentative List, as well
as confirmation that two sites would be formally nominated this year:
the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape in South Wales, and the Town of St
George, Bermuda.'

For full details of the press release and list of sites go to the britarch
archive at http://www. mailbase.ac.uk/lists/britarch/  message dated Thu, 05
Aug 1999 10:26:10 +0100

Peter

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