Architecture and Heritage Coordination Service (SECAP)

The Architecture and Heritage Coordination Service (SeCAP) created on 1 June 2010 as part of the implementation of the DRAC Centre service project, specifies the modalities of cooperation between the various DRAC departments, with a view to rationalization and collegiality. It is a transversal structure in the fields of heritage and architecture.

Its missions are divided into two main functions:

  1. Coordination: provide support, representation and coordination of the territorial services of architecture and heritage (STAP) located in each department (Cher, Eure-et-Loir, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Loire-et-Cher, Loiret).
  2. Transversality: organize the transversality between the three heritage poles: Archaeology, Historical monuments and Architecture and protected spaces.

As such, its vocation is to:

- organize the operational coordination of heritage services;

- develop reflexes for pooling resources and expertise between decentralized departments;

- contribute to the development of regional doctrine in the fields of architecture and heritage;

- to be the first contact for third parties and external partners in the fields of urban planning, architecture and protected areas at regional level;

- to manage transversal projects;

- to organize and animate the regional conferences on architecture and heritage (CRAP) as a body for operational coordination and doctrinal production;

- to exercise directly functions and expertise in the field of regional architecture policy and asset valuation.

Its areas of intervention:

A forum for exchanges and shared reflections in the fields of competence of the various departments in charge of architecture and heritage (CRMH, SRA, STAP), it organises regional conferences on architecture and heritage (CRAP) The aim is to be a force for collegial proposals in the field of architectural, urban and landscape policy and heritage development. Project-based operations are favored by the appointment of pilots to lead, according to their own skills, reflection in the four main heritage fields:

- Heritage: policies of heritage development monumental and intangible (European Heritage Days, conferences, symposia, publications..., Gastronomy Festival...), heritage labelling policies (Cities and countries of art and history, 20th century label, Maison des illustres...).

- Landscape: garden policy (Label Jardin remarquable, Rendez-vous aux jardins...) , UNESCO management plans (Loire Valley World Heritage, cathedrals of Bourges and Chartres), life-size Loire plan, regional wind...

The SeCAP is not intended to replace heritage services or to modify the competences of each service. On the contrary, it aims to strengthen these skills by offering a logistics platform to facilitate the exchange of information and the coordination of actions.

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