Opinion

Historic England’s decarbonisation advice is a missed opportunity to fully embrace the climate crisis

2024-07-24T11:59:00

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The heritage advisor’s new guidance on how to retrofit historic buildings without harming them includes some welcome details but leaves too much to interpretation, writes climate and heritage specialist Chris Procter

Historic England has just published its new Advisory Note 18 “Adapting Historic Buildings for Energy and Carbon Efficiency”. I have been following its development and, in Nov 2023, I commented on the public draft consultation when it was titled “Climate Change and Historic Building Adaptation.

The scope of this heritage Advisory Note covers 10% of all English homes, with 32,000 (0.11%) Grades I & II*, 368,000(1.3%) Grade II, and 2,400,000 (8.6%) unlisted Conservation Areas homes.

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