Cul­tural Her­itage Assets Man­age­ment Plans (CHAMP)

Cul­tural Her­itage Assets Man­age­ment Plans (CHAMPs) are pre­pared by the HA, through MACs and some DBFOs, to pro­tect and enhance the his­toric envi­ron­ment sur­round­ing the Strate­gic Road Network.

A Cul­tural Her­itage inven­tory, within the HA Envi­ron­men­tal Infor­ma­tion sys­tem (EnvIS) data­base, col­lects GIS based her­itage data within and adja­cent to HA estate, and it is acces­si­ble to peo­ple with a HA log through HAMIS.

The Agency stip­u­lates the require­ments for the prepa­ra­tion of Cul­tural Her­itage Asset Man­age­ment Plans (CHAMPs) in the Design Man­ual for Roads and Bridges Vol­ume 10 Sec­tion 6.

The guid­ance reflects the Government’s manda­tory require­ments of the Pro­to­col for the Care of the Government’s His­toric Estate (Pro­to­col DCMS, 2003), to which the Agency’s par­ent Depart­ment, the Depart­ment for Trans­port (DfT), is a signatory.

CHAMPs Pre­sen­ta­tions and Reports

• The his­tory and devel­op­ment of the CHAMP project — David Freke’s presentation
• Intro­duc­tion to CHAMP and EnvIS — Elisa Fariselli’s presentation
• Prepar­ing the man­age­ment plan for CHAMP Area 7 pilot study — Leonora O’Brien’s presentation
• Cul­tural Her­itage EnvIS inven­tory data — Jay Carver’s presentation
• Area 7 Pilot study report and here

CHAMPs Doc­u­ments and Resources

• HA2008 DMRB Vol 10 Envi­ron­men­tal design and man­age­ment, Sec­tion 6 Archae­ol­ogy, Part 2, Cul­tural Her­itage Asset Man­age­ment Plans (HA 117/08)
• Interim Advice Note Stan­dards for High­ways web­sites con­tain­ing Interim Advice Note (IAN) 84/10 on Envi­ron­men­tal design and man­age­ment, Sec­tion 0 High­ways Agency Envi­ron­men­tal Infor­ma­tion Sys­tem — EnvIS
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • LUT
• HA 2007 Assess­ing the Effect of Road Schemes on His­toric Land­scape Char­ac­ter.  High­ways Agency/English Heritage/Council for British Archaeology/Natural England
• EH 2009 Man­ag­ing Her­itage Assets: Guid­ance for gov­ern­ment depart­ments on the use of peri­odic inspec­tions for­ward work plans and asset man­age­ment pro­grammes.  Eng­lish Her­itage Gov­ern­ment His­toric Estates Unit