As 2024 draws to a close, Historic England is celebrating 17 remarkable and unusual historic buildings and places that have been granted protection over the past year. Among the newly listed historic ...

Part of the Heritage Counts series. 10+ minute read. The UKGBC reports that up to 20% of the emissions from the built environment are embodied carbon emissions. These emissions originate from ...

Part of the Heritage Counts series. 6 minute read. Retaining, using, and appropriately adapting our historic buildings can be a key part of the solution for lower carbon emissions (Historic England, ...

Buildings are the UK's second-highest carbon-emitting sector, accounting for 76 MtCO2e or 17% of total UK emissions in 2022 or 23% of total emissions if electricity consumption is included (indirect ...

Part of the Heritage Counts series. Over 10 minute read. The built environment (buildings and infrastructure) is responsible for a significant proportion (25%) [1] of the UK's total carbon emissions.

Significant information gaps exist in our understanding of the built environment in conservation areas. Common measures of energy performance, such as Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) ratings, ...

Auditing and monitoring workforce diversity is an important tool for inclusion. Auditing workforce diversity can highlight gaps in representation and help uncover why these gaps exist. It can also ...

Part of the Heritage Counts series. 8 minute read. A low carbon economy offers the potential for significant employment and wealth creation. In this article, we explore the evidence of how the ...

Since receding sheets of the last Ice Age shaped the British Isles about 13,000 years ago – severing our physical link with the continent as we became an island – England's story has been ...

Heritage Counts is a compendium of the best available evidence that might support advocacy for heritage and inform new initiatives. Historic environment professionals use the research collected here ...

Ruins of a C17 park lodge, now a roofless structure three storeys high. Historic England has grant-aided emergency works. Proposals to restore and convert … ...

A shopfront improvement project has revealed and celebrates the past lives of cheesemonger Little Mouse's shop, which the owners then shared in the Open House 2023 programme. A South Norwood couple ...