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2013 provides the following definition of scientific value:
Social value refers to the associations that a place has for a particular community or cultural group and the social or cultural meanings that it holds for them.[101]
The social value of a heritage place has been described as, 'the special meanings attached to places by groups of people (rather than by individuals)'.[102]  A critical consideration in establishing the social significance of a place is its value to the present community.  This sense of communal attachment is typically associated with places that are publicly accessible, or have otherwise been, 'appropriated into the daily lives of people'.[103]  Places recognised as having social value include those that:
      * Provide a spiritual or traditional connection between past and present
      * Tie the past affectionately to the present
      * Help give a disempowered group back its history
      * Provide an essential reference point in a community's identity or sense of itself
      * Loom large in the daily comings and goings of life
      * Provide an essential community function that over time develops into a deeper attachment that is more than utility value
      * Have shaped some aspect of community behaviour or attitudes
      * Are distinctive – the old clock tower in a town or an architectural folly – features that lift a place above the crowd, making it likely that special meanings have been attached to that place
      * Are accessible to the public and offer the possibility of repeated use to build up associations and value to the community of users
      * Places where people gather and act as a community, for example places of public ritual, public meeting or congregation, and informal gathering places[104]
Indications of a community's attachment to a place might be reflected in a history of communal action to protect the place from development; inclusion in local walking tours; and representation in postcards or websites for the area.
Social significance or value is typically established through community consultation, sometimes in the form of survey questionnaires, interviews with members of the relevant communities or public discussion workshops.  Opinion pieces in the local print media, and views expressed in talk-back radio shows can also be forums for the expression of community sentiment.  Community consultation is rarely a 'scientific' process, although it is generally the case that the broader the cross-section of the community invited to express opinions, the greater the certainty about the outcomes.
As noted at Chapter 1, no formal appraisal of social values was undertaken in the course of this HMP.  Such a process has the potential to indicate that a community or group has some degree of social attachment to the building.  However, that is not considered to be sufficiently