Draft Heritage Strategy: Public Consultation

Overview

We are inviting those who live, visit, work, study and invest in our Borough or have an interest in heritage to complete the survey to give us your feedback on the draft Heritage Strategy.

The Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Heritage Strategy is a new strategy which aims to have joined-up leadership for heritage; with communities, partners and ABC Council working together. The result will be better places to live, work and visit; with buildings, parks and landscape maintained, reused, and brought back to life. It will also mean wider participation, where volunteers are supported, young people are engaged, and a broader range of inclusive stories are shared.

This draft Heritage Strategy will help protect, enhance and celebrate our Borough’s unique heritage. The successful delivery of this strategy will depend on a collaborative approach involving our residents, community organisations, and businesses working together and take ownership of their heritage.  The strategy identifies a series of strategically aligned objectives and actions to support heritage in all its forms; Built, Natural and Cultural, all of which were developed from feedback received during initial engagement and consultation.

The development of this strategy has been made possible by The National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of the Heritage Places Strategic Initiative. In October 2023, Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough was announced as one of the first nine of up to 20 places across the UK to be a designated Heritage Place. This designation is a real opportunity to take a long-term strategic heritage-led approach to placemaking.

In addition to this online survey, there will be an opportunity to attend a variety of local public consultation events and activities across the ABC Borough to discuss your views on our draft strategy. Further information can be found at https://abcculture.com/heritage-places/

Privacy Statement

Purpose and lawful basis for processing
Our purpose for processing your personal data is to find out your thoughts and opinions regarding the Draft Heritage Strategy.

The lawful basis we are relying on to process your personal data is Article 6 (1) (a) of the UK GDPR, which allows us to process personal data when the individual has given clear consent for us to process their personal data for a specific purpose.

What we need
In this survey, you will be asked to provide your email address at the end, should you wish to receive an email copy of your responses. You do not have to provide your email. When you complete an online survey, we collect the IP address that you accessed from but do not use this to identify individuals. We will also process any other personal data you choose to provide in your response to the survey questions.

What we do with it
Council will collate the response into a report, shared internally, as part of a review into the event – i.e. what went well, what did not and how we can improve the event going forward. Your personal data will not be included in the report. Council will compile the information received into a report for internal use only. Council may include sections of this report in an overall evaluation report, which may be published.

How long we keep it?
The survey opens on 22nd December 2025 and closes on 16th March 2026. The responses will be stored on secure servers for 1 year to assist with preparations for any subsequent evaluation. 

What are your rights?
If you have any questions regarding this survey, please contact heritageplaces@armaghbanbridgecraigavon.gov.uk

For more information on your rights, please refer to the Information Commissioner’s Office website please see 'Your data protection rights'.

If you are unhappy with the way in which we have processed your personal data then you have the right to complain to the ICO as the UK supervisory authority.

Do we use any data processors?
Delib is the company which maintains the Citizen Space service.  This service provides the online consultation platform for Armagh Banbridge Craigavon Council to design and publish online public engagement activities including consultations. This is also the service used by Armagh Banbridge Craigavon Council when third parties are commissioned to carry out engagement activities, unless otherwise stated.

Armagh Banbridge Craigavon Council is the Data Controller, Delib is the Data Processor and Rackspace Limited, which hosts the consultation platform, is a Sub-processor.

Privacy statements relating to Delib’s service to its customers and their Data Protection Officer’s contact details can be found www.delib.net/privacy

Do we transfer data overseas?

Any responses submitted by you to our engagement and survey activities are processed on our behalf by Delib. All data is stored in the UK in secure data centres operated and managed by Delib’s chosen Infrastructure as a Service provider.

Why your views matter

This Heritage Strategy provides an opportunity for the residents of Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough to help shape a strategic document and work together with stakeholders and council to protect, enhance and celebrate the unique heritage which makes ABC Borough a better place to live, work and visit.

More than 7700 people got involved in the development of this draft heritage strategy between September 2024 – June 2025 through workshops, online survey, Drop-in events across the ABC Borough, events, schools programme and so much more. Engagement is summed up in Chapter 7 of the Heritage Strategy and further information can be found in the Heritage Strategy Appendices.

Please find below the draft Heritage Strategy and the draft Heritage Strategy Appendices at the bottom of this page which are avaliable for you to download.

The consultation has been reflected in the Equality Screening Form and Rural Needs Impact Assessment which are attached below in the related documents section.

The feedback received during this draft consultation will be considered in the final Heritage Strategy. We will listen to your views and will provide feedback on how this has influenced the final Heritage Strategy. The implementation and delivery of each action in the Heritage Strategy will be subject to funding and availability of resources.

ABC Council will process these survey findings and information in line with UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) requirements.

Findings and data from this survey will be only shared with the Council’s Heritage Places Project Team.