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Local heritage list campaign: announcement of successful areas

This campaign encourages communities to nominate those locally important historic buildings which they value most for inclusion in their local authority’s local list.

From:
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
Published
16 October 2020
Last updated
2 February 2021 — See all updates

Applies to England

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Local heritage list campaign: announcement of successful areas

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In October 2019, the government announced the most ambitious local heritage campaign for decades. The campaign will encourage communities to nominate historic buildings and other heritage assets which they value most for inclusion in their council’s local list, helping to protect them through the planning system.

To support the campaign, the government initially announced the provision of £700,000 of funding to councils in 10 English county areas to develop new or updated local lists.

Charles O’Brien, a leading architectural historian, commissioner at Historic England and editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides, working closely with Historic England, will work with those selected to support the creation of new and updated local lists.

The funding is intended to support projects which involve a county-wide approach to developing local lists. Successful proposals have also set out how they will engage civic/heritage groups and local historic building societies.

Following overwhelmingly positive interest from authorities, the department has announced a doubling of the original funding allocation to £1.5 million to support local heritage lists. This will enable 22 areas to benefit instead of the 10 originally envisaged.

The successful areas are:

  • Lancashire
  • Greater Manchester
  • Dorset
  • County Durham
  • Surrey
  • Somerset
  • South Yorkshire
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Lincolnshire
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Cheshire
  • Tyne and Wear
  • Cumbria
  • Merseyside (Knowsley, Sefton and Wirral)
  • West Yorkshire
  • The Black Country
  • Gloucestershire (Gloucester, Tewkesbury)
  • Cotswolds (Cotswold, Forest of Dean, West Oxfordshire)
  • Hampshire
  • Milton Keynes
  • Peterborough
  • Cornwall
Published 16 October 2020
Last updated 2 February 2021 + show all updates

  1. Updated to include the list of successful areas.

  2. First published.