{"id":4252,"date":"2026-03-26T13:34:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/heritageconservationact\/?page_id=4252"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:34:17","slug":"technical-policy-paper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/heritageconservationact\/technical-policy-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical Policy Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-engagement-container\"><div class=\"engagement-page\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-engagement-content\"><bcgov-breadcrumb>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/heritageconservationact\">Home<\/a>\n                          <span>\n        Technical Policy Paper\n  <\/span>\n  <div style=\"display: flex\" slot=\"breadcrumb-extra\">\n      <\/div>\n  <\/bcgov-breadcrumb>\n\n\n<h1 class=\"bcgov-engagement-header \">Technical Policy Paper<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Posted March 26, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From summer through fall 2025, the Province engaged with First Nations, local governments, stakeholders, and the public, to gather additional feedback to inform policy proposals to modernize the Heritage Conservation Act (HCA).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/987\/2026\/03\/HCATP-Technical-Policy-Paper-FINAL.pdf\" title=\"\">Technical Policy Paper<\/a> outlines how proposed reforms to the Heritage Conservation Act (HCA) have evolved and incorporated feedback since the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/987\/2025\/10\/Updated-HCATP-Phase-3-Session-Primer-for-Engagement-with-Local-Governments-and-Stakeholders.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Updated Phase 3 Session Primer for Engagement with Local Governments and Stakeholders<\/a> was released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-engagement-sidebar\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted March 26, 2026 From summer through fall 2025, the Province engaged with First Nations, local governments, stakeholders, and the public, to gather additional feedback to inform policy proposals to modernize the Heritage Conservation Act (HCA).\u00a0 This Technical Policy Paper outlines how proposed reforms to the Heritage Conservation Act (HCA) have evolved and incorporated feedback &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/heritageconservationact\/technical-policy-paper\/\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" >Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6166,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4252","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/heritageconservationact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/heritageconservationact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/heritageconservationact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/heritageconservationact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/heritageconservationact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/heritageconservationact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4287,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/heritageconservationact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4252\/revisions\/4287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/heritageconservationact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}