Heritage at Risk - What Is Included?

What Is Included?

The Heritage at Risk Register covers:

• Grade I and II* listed buildings (the baseline register is 1999); Grade II listed buildings in London only (the baseline register is 1991)
• Structural scheduled monuments (base year is 1999) and scheduled monuments (base year is 2009)
• Registered parks and gardens (base year is 2009)
• Registered historic battlefields (base year is 2008)
• Protected wrecks sites
• Conservation areas (base year is 2010).

The national Register is produced as an online database, and as a register for each of the nine English regions.

The site's condition and trends are published for each entry. The Register is accompanied by a summary that provides key statistics and includes:

• The number of each type of heritage asset that is assessed as at risk.
• The percentage of each designated asset type at risk.
• The number of additions and assets removed from the Register each year.

Each entry is given a priority for action, ranging from A: "immediate risk of further rapid deterioration/loss of fabric and no solution agreed", to F: "repair scheme in progress (and where applicable) end user found". It is possible to search the register online—by location, asset type and condition.

Many English planning authorities publish their own 'Heritage at Risk' or 'Buildings at Risk' registers, and several are published on local authority websites, e.g. Bolsover District Council and Essex County Council.