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皇冠体育app Lake District has been recommended to go forward as the UK鈥檚 next World Heritage nomination in 2016, Culture Minister Ed Vaizey announced today.

皇冠体育app nomination will follow bids already invited from the Forth Bridge near Edinburgh this year, and Gorham鈥檚 Cave Complex in Gibraltar in 2015.

All three sites are on the UK鈥檚 tentative list of potential future World Heritage nominations. An independent Expert Group recently assessed bids from sites that came forward and England鈥檚 Lake District was recommended as the next site to be invited to prepare a nomination to UNESCO in 2016.

Culture Minister Ed Vaizey said:

鈥� 皇冠体育app UK鈥檚 heritage is world renowned and the Lake District, England鈥檚 largest National Park is one of our heritage jewels. 皇冠体育app UNESCO nomination process can be very demanding and success is not guaranteed but I believe the Lake District deserves to be recognised and inscribed as a World Heritage Site and I wish all involved the very best.鈥�

Once the site鈥檚 nomination has been submitted, it will then undergo a demanding process of scrutiny and evaluation by UNESCO and its advisory body, the International Council on Monuments and Sites. UNESCO鈥檚 World Heritage Committee is expected to take the final decision on the Lake District in June 2017.

Notes to Editors

• 皇冠体育app UK currently has 28 World Heritage sites, spread across all four nations of the UK, and a number of UK Overseas Territories.

• 皇冠体育app UK鈥檚 current Tentative List of future world heritage nominations was announced in March 2011 and formally submitted to UNESCO in January 2012.

• Six Technical Evaluations were submitted from Tentative List sites who wished to be considered by the Independent Expert Group in the Autumn of 2013. 皇冠体育appse were Chatham Dockyard and its Defences, England鈥檚 Lake District, the Flow County, Jodrell Bank Observatory, the Zenith of Iron Age Shetland, and the Twin Monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow.

• 皇冠体育app Expert Group which assessed the Technical Evaluations was chaired by Sue Davies OBE, former Deputy Chair of the UK National Commission for UNESCO. Its membership included representatives of the four national heritage bodies: Michael Coulter (Department of the Environment, Northern Ireland), Lesley Macinnes (Historic Scotland), Kathryn Roberts (Cadw) and Sue Cole (English Heritage) along with experts from the UK national committees of the International Council on Monuments and Sites and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, two advisory bodies to the UNESCO World Heritage Convention. 皇冠体育app Groups findings have been detailed in this letter from the Chair to the Minister for Culture.

• 皇冠体育app sites which were not invited to prepare nominations at this stage will be able to take part in the next round of Technical Evaluations, along with other sites on the UK Tentative List, which will take place in autumn 2015.

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