Management plan: a basis for action, a common reference tool for sharing responsibility

The Loire Valley, in its middle stretch running from Sully-sur-Loire (Loiret) to Chalonnes-sur-Loire (Maine-et-Loire), has been inscribed since November 2000 in the UNESCO World Heritage as a cultural landscape. With this inscription, the international community has recognised the "outstanding universal" character of the Loire Valley and demanded that each property have an accompanying Management Plan drawn up. 

The Management Plan is divided into four parts: 

• description of  the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV)  by the spatial organisation, landscape shaping through the centuries, economic activity and natural beauty of the river;
• an analysis of the factors that could undermine this OUV  by the production of facilities, land development and land use.
• 9 guidelines to protecting the OUV by all of the stakeholders in the territory;
• the actions managed by the State in its capacity as guarantor of the UNESCO inscription's future.

The very large surface area of this site (280 km long) and large number of stakeholders (164 municipalities, 6 urban areas, 4 départements – Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire, Parc naturel régional Loire-Anjou-Touraine – as well as the Centre and Pays de la Loire regions) justify that this framework document be shared by all of the partners and form a common reference tool for sharing management of the inscribed stretch of the Loire Valley. 

Download:

• Press release for the press lunch of 12 July 2013 (PDF, 301.43 kB)
• Press pack for the press lunch of 12 July 2013 (PDF, 1.4 MB)

Next meetings

Loire Valley World Heritage Regional Conference

• Wednesday 25 September 2013 in Tours.

This will be given over to preparing for the operational aspects of the management plan, as well as an exchange of viewpoints one year on from the local authorities' deliberations on the document. 

Meetings between decision-makers

Organised by the Mission Val de Loire at département level, these meetings are intended for the site's local authorities, land planning and heritage professionals and heritage conservation and enhancement associations as part of their duties to implement strategic objective IX of the Management Plan: "Assist decision-makers with advice and constant guidance".  

• Tuesday 8 October 2013 in Chécy (Loiret)
• Thursday 17 October 2013 in Amboise (Indre-et-Loire)
• Tuesday 5 November 2013 in Mer (Loir-et-Cher)
• Thursday 14 November 2013 in Saint-Mathurin-sur-Loire (Maine-et-Loire)

On this site:

• Management plan for the listed site