Scheduling Heritage in Malta: The Perspective of Heritage Professionals

Nadine Zammit; Lino Bianco

doi:10.3311/PPar.21681

Authors

Nadine Zammit

Affiliation

Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Faculty for the Built Environment, University of Malta, Msida Campus, Msida MSD 2080, Malta
Lino Bianco

Affiliation

Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Faculty for the Built Environment, University of Malta, Msida Campus, Msida MSD 2080, Malta
Department of Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture, University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, 1 Hristo Smirnenski Blvd., 1046 Sofia, Bulgaria

Abstract

Scheduling is a cultural heritage tool to provide statutory protection to heritage assets. This article is an analysis of the process of securing protection of immovable cultural heritage buildings and sites in the Maltese Islands. Through qualitative interviews with key stakeholders – namely, heritage professionals – this study exposes shortcomings and limitations of the existing local scheduling process. It proposes the public as a main stakeholder and lists several recommendations put forward by the participants for a more inclusive methodology of selecting and scheduling cultural heritage buildings and sites. It concludes by proposing the adoption of modes of rendering the process and assessment of heritage assets less subjective, notably through the adoption of the prototype computation of heritage values based on a heritage value grid.