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Key Recommendations for Improvement

The Key Recommendations for Improvement are (Section 4.3 for details):

Recommendation 1

Establish a programme to raise the profile of Wrexham County Borough's heritage.

Recommendation 2

Co-ordinate ICT links between the Council, other heritage operators and community organisations, and the local media (including the BBC) to facilitate access to information about the local heritage for both residents and visitors to the County Borough.

Recommendation 3

Promote sustainable physical and intellectual access to the local heritage asset - whether monument, archival material or artefact and ensure the authentic interpretation of heritage through the promotion of original research activities.

Recommendation 4

The Council should work with community organisations to strengthen networking between community based heritage organisations and their ability to work with their local communities.

Recommendation 5

The Council should promote joint planning and marketing of local heritage assets and activities between heritage operators. This could draw on the Open Churches Network model to create sustainable ways of promoting otherwise scattered and smaller scale heritage opportunities and of linking them to their local communities.

Recommendation 6

Build on the good practice already established within economic and rural regeneration programmes to link heritage development with employment and training opportunities, sustainable tourism and environmental initiatives.

Recommendation 7

Provide a link between Council, education bodies and heritage providers to develop greater use of local heritage resources, both physical and human in the formal school curriculum and in life-long, community and family learning programmes.

Recommendation 8

Address the skills deficit by bringing together economic development, regeneration, education, training and learning organisations to consider skill development for the heritage sector including for community organisations and volunteers and the development of skills in the use of traditional construction techniques required in conservation and other projects.

Recommendation 9

Council departments promoting community development and the interests of young and elderly people should work with education and learning bodies and with other organisations to coordinate programmes which:

• Recognise and celebrate the distinctive heritage of Wrexham County Borough's communities including its Welsh speaking community, and those newly arrived as well as established communities.

• Support local communities to explore their own heritage, particularly their recent community experience of industrial heritage through oral history and other approaches.

• Build inter-generational links within communities through involving older people, local community groups, with schools and young people in exploring family, local and community history.

Recommendation 10

Establish a policy and procedure for ensuring that planning and development processes address the potential community benefit of heritage assets and that alternative and sustainable uses for historic buildings are always considered in preference to demolition.

Recommendation 11

Ensure that the basic information concerning our heritage held in the Sites and Monuments Record is up to date and that the Schedule of Ancient Monuments is reviewed so as to reflect current knowledge.

Recommendation 12

Ensure that adequate resources are made available so as to establish a rolling programme of monument conservation within the County Borough.

Recommendation 13

Undertake a phased programme to upgrade the County Borough Council's physical infrastructure for museum and archive provision in line with national standards.

Recommendation 14

Continue to develop and conserve collections that reflect the cultural heritage of Wrexham County Borough and ensure that they are maintained in line with national standards.

Recommendation 15

Work in partnership with other local authorities, national institutions and heritage bodies so that local heritage assets currently held outside the County Borough, including museum and archive collections, are made more easily accessible within the County Borough.

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