image for illustration: Shrewsbury – Angharad Hart
The Culture, Media, and Sport Committee (CMS) has issued papers regarding its inquiry into protecting built heritage in the UK – which closed 3 February – with the evidence submitted, including correspondence, oral evidence transcripts, and written evidence, now published.
The Committee writes of its original Inquiry plans:
The inquiry will examine issues with funding and whether current finance models are suitable and accessible. It will also engage with how the Government can tackle practical and regulatory challenges, such as the availability of skilled practitioners, the managed decline of assets on publicly-owned land, and policy issues arising from net zero targets and planning policy.
Alongside this, MPs will highlight the importance of built heritage for economic regeneration and to community identities, as well as how those communities can be empowered to manage their local built heritage assets.
See full details and links at
https://committees.parliament.uk/work/8742/protecting-built-heritage/publications
See submissions by IHBC HERE and CIOB HERE
Submissions by heritage and historic bodies include:
- Maintain our heritage (HER0090)
- The Heritage Alliance (HER0091)
- National Heritage Science Forum (HER0095)
- Glasgow City Heritage Trust (HER0098)
- Smith Jenkins Planning & Heritage (HER0081)
- Save Britain’s Heritage (HER0083)
- English Heritage (HER0084)
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund (HER0085)
- Architectural Heritage Fund (HER0033)
- Wales Heritage Group, and Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales(HER0039)
- Seaside Heritage Network (HER0041)
- Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust (HER0108)
- Historic Religious Buildings Alliance (HER0104)
- Historic England (HER0076)
- Historic Towns and Villages Forum (HER0036)
- Wales Heritage Group, and Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales(HER0039)
- Historic Houses (HER0027)
See also the Letter from Baroness Twycross, Minister for Gambling and Heritage, regarding the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme, 4 September 2025 HERE
