What organisation is responsible for protecting and promoting the Antonine Wall.

UNESCO requires management plans to be produced for each WHS to bring together all responsible parties and ensure a coordinated approach to management of the site to preserve its outstanding universal value. Each WHS in Scotland is governed by a board of management plan partners which sets, implements and reviews agreed objectives for a five-year period. National policy and guidance additionally requires planning authorities to establish specific policies to assist in managing development within WHSs and within their wider setting.
For the Antonine Wall, the management plan partners (Historic Scotland and the five local authorities) all own and manage sections of the site. In implementing the management plan, all share responsibility for promotion and protection: through planning processes; through management of visitor attractions (both the site itself and the museums displaying the finds from the site); through direct ownership / guardianship; through individual and partnership websites; through delivering road and path signage; through collaboration on joint projects and investments; through educational and events work both joint and collaborative; and through the development of joint policy such as supplementary planning g uidance.
As part of a transnational Site, the Antonine Wall has an additional international management dimension.
Organisation responsible for protecting and promoting the Antonine Wall.
As a serial transnational World Heritage Site, the Frontiers of the Roman Empire (FRE) WHS presently includes Partners in Scotland, England and Germany. The number of international Partners could grow further in the future as other countries with sections of the second century Roman frontier submit nomination bids to UNESCO. Co-ordination and delivery of this complicated international management arrangement is undertaken at several levels within the Partnership, from strategic to operational.
At a strategic level, the Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC) meets annually and consists of delegations of the State Parties from the countries already inscribed. Delegations include at least one member of the administration in charge of the national section(s) of the FREWHS as well as at least one archaeological expert. The rules and function of the IGC are approved and accepted by all the participating State Parties in the FREWHS, and the IGC is responsible for the co-ordination of the joint international management of the FREWHS and for maintaining compliance with WHC obligations. Delegations of State Parties caring for a section of the
Roman frontier not yet inscribed are welcomed as observers, particularly if considering nomination or already on the tentative list.
At an academic level, a panel of international experts (the Bratislava Group) meets annually, and advises the FREWHS IGC on all cultural heritage management issues. This group forms a key link for passing on “lessons learned” from inscribed sections to those on the tentative list or considering nomination.
At an operational level, co-ordinators and Site managers (the Hexham Group) meet at least once a year, usually more often, to discuss monitoring issues and share best practice approaches to Site management and presentation.
In Scotland, the partners responsible for delivering the management plan for the Antonine Wall are East Dunbartonshire Council, Falkirk Council, Glasgow City Council, Historic Scotland, North Lanarkshire Council and West Dunbartonshire Council. Representatives from each of these organisations form a steering group which prioritises and guides implementation of the aims and objectives set out in the WHS management plan. Specific projects and activities are agreed and delivered through a suite of delivery groups: protection and planning; education; access and interpretation; and conservation and landscape. These delivery groups, as well as including representatives from appropriate services in the partner organisations, also include sta