Departmental units of architecture and heritage (UDAP)

The departmental units of architecture and heritage (UDAP), within the regional directorate of cultural affairs of Centre-Val de Loire, are located in each of the six departments of the region: Cher, Eure-et-Loir, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher and Loiret.

UDAP a local service...

Led by a head of department Architecte des Bâtiments de France (ABF), the UDPAs assert themselves as local services, working in direct relation with users and the many partners or institutional contacts.

With a multidisciplinary team composed of administrative officers, technicians or engineers, the service implements policies related to the protection of heritage and the promotion of architectural quality, urban and landscape of the living environment in a perspective of sustainable development of the territories.

... serving citizens and communities

The UDAP are at the service of any citizen, any professional (project manager), local authority or contracting authority, who wishes to carry out work in a protected area: surroundings of historical monuments, Remarkable Heritage Sites, protected natural sites, UNESCO World Heritage perimeter). They also accompany the main actors of spatial planning policies in the preparation and monitoring of spatial planning documents.

How to succeed your project?

The key to the success of a project is the quality of the relationship between the Crown’s heritage services, communities and elected officials who have dealt with built heritage in all its forms, through their ownership, skills, or induced effects:

- directly for maintenance, restoration or modification work;

- incidentally in protected areas, as part of the revitalization of city centres or local development projects.

How to work well together?

The difficulties that sometimes arise in the exchanges between elected officials and heritage services are mainly due to a reciprocal ignorance.

For elected officials, it is difficult to identify the role of the various departments involved at one time or another, in the development of a conservation project or a structuring project of a community located in a protected space.

For the heritage services, it is difficult to understand the financial difficulties of the communities, the lack of engineering resources in the small municipalities and the complexity of these procedures.

Possible solutions:

- by moving from a procedural logic to a project logic: the shared definition of the objective to be achieved integrates the procedures that become means to achieve it and not an end in itself.

- by knowing the people who implement State policy on the ground to facilitate exchanges around a project. This relationship of trust between the actors allows the local authorities and project leaders to benefit to the best of the expertise and know-how of the ABF. This framework of renewed quality dialogue will be a major asset for the valorization and development of territories.

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