Review it!
Management
plans are not a
one-off thing. They need regular care and attention
to stay up-to-date. They should have built into
them some timeframes for when they will be checked
for relevance such as a yearly review (which would
include a progress report), or more typically a
major review after about 4 or 5 years.
For a major review, all 10
steps in the process should be
revisited.
As you use your plan, you may
also need to review parts as circumstances
change.
Some of the reasons for
changing a plan:
- the objectives defined in
the plan (and hence the strategies linked to
them) have proven to be unsuitable, and the plan
is no longer a useful guide for
management
- major changes have
affected the place, so a new approach to its
management is needed
- new information comes to
light about the heritage values of the place,
which means that the basis for the plan has
changed and new objectives and strategies to
protect the values may be required.
If changes are only those
that might normally be expected over the course of
time you don't need to rush to re-write your plan,
but it is worth documenting the changes so that
they can be considered when the next major review
of the plan takes place.

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