historic england

Battle Abbey, where the Battle of Hastings was fought

Battlefield Registration – what is it trying to protect?

21.02.2019

The sites of significant battles deserve sensitive assessment of the characteristics that contribute to their identity as battlefields, before any development decisions are made, says Nick Bridgland

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Character-based development can resolve an age-old planning struggle

08.01.2019

Nairita Chakraborty

Urban characterisation can help to resolve the planning struggles, explains Nairita Chakraborty.

Historic Bristol / Shutterstock: 545855629

Appeal: Outcry over historic ceiling demolition ‘influenced council decision’

25.07.2018

Matt Moody

Bristol City Council was ‘markedly influenced’ by public anger over a developer’s destruction of a 17th century ceiling in determining a proposal to convert the same building into student...

Appeal: Shakespearean scheduled monument stalls six-storey Shoreditch scheme

04.05.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has blocked a mixed-use development in East London, adjacent to the recently rediscovered remains of a Shakespearean theatre where Romeo and Juliet is believed to have debuted.

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Historic farm buildings receive a £2m grant

29.03.2018

Prithvi Pandya

A £2 million grant scheme is being rolled out this year in five national parks, offering funding for land managers to restore their historic farm buildings, the government has announced.

Appeal: Erroneously listed extension saved by historical associations

07.03.2018

Matt Moody

A 1960s extension to a Regency-era villa in Oxford that was included in its listing after being mistaken as original has been saved from demolition because of the ‘nationally important’ figures...

Albert Memorial is a well know memorial in England / iStock-879086592

Search for England’s forgotten memorials

07.03.2018

Laura Edgar

Community Engagement | England | Heritage | historic england | monuments

Historic England has launched ‘Immortalised’ – a project asking the public to share its knowledge of local monuments, street shrines and community tributes in public places.

Conservation areas – the good, the bad and the ugly

11.10.2017

Iain Rhind

conservation areas | England | Heritage | heritage | historic england

2017 marks the 50th anniversary of England's first conservation area. Many more have been designated since - but are conservation areas all they're cracked up to be? Iain Rhind argues for a nuanced view of...

England round-up: Poll suggests public still supports conservation areas; CPCA approves £200m application for government housing fund

29.09.2017

Laura Edgar

A round-up planning news in England: 23 September-29 September, 2017

Stamford then/ Historic England / press release

Poll suggests public still supports conservation areas

28.09.2017

Community Engagement | conservation area | England | Heritage | historic england

The public remains in support of powers held by councils to protect the character and appearance of conservation areas in England 50 years after the first was designated, according to a survey.

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