Indicators in the latest Heritage Counts survey of England’s Historic Environment show that Listed Building Consent (LBC) applications are an increasing proportion of all applications submitted while, using data collected by the IHBC among others, overall local authority historic environment staff capacity continues to decline.
Graphs courtesy Historic England, Heritage Counts 2016
The latest indicators provide an insight into the state of the historic environment over more than 10 years, giving irrefutable trend data that documents the decline in conservation and archaeology services.
Data is organised by the five strategic priorities of Heritage 2020 and is accompanied by easy-to-use statistics in Excel spreadsheets showing year-on-year changes in the historic environment to be tracked at national, regional and (where possible) local level. There are spreadsheets for Discovery, identification and understanding; Constructive conservation and sustainable management; Public engagement; Capacity building; and Helping things to happen.
The key findings for 2016 include:
- Listed Building Consent applications are an increasing proportion of all applications submitted to planning authorities
- Local Authority historic environment staff capacity continues to decline
- Historic properties continue to attract large numbers of visitors
- Membership to heritage organisations has grown considerably in the past year
- Heritage is becoming more inclusive.
View the indicator data
