Heritage at Risk: A Strategy for
the region’s assets
Trevor Mitchell, Yorkshire and
the Humber Planning Director
Heritage at Risk in Yorkshire and the
Humber
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The scale of HAR in Y&H
EH resources
New priorities
Collaborative working
The task seems daunting
• 29,212 Grade II LBs
• 1,495 Grade II* LBs
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685 Grade I LBs
• 2,663 SAMs
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122 Registered parks
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7 Battlefields
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892 conservation areas
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1365(?) listed churches
• 1300 GII BARs?
• 100 High-grade BARs
• 734 SMARs
• 11 PAGARs
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4 Battlefields @Risk
• 46 CAARs
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? POWARs
Numbers of BAR register removals
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10 in 1999
23 in 2000
15 in 2001
15 in 2002
18 in 2003
12 in 2004
14 in 2005
2 in 2006
8 in 2007
5 in 2008
7 in 2009
7 in 2010,
but 4 added
English Heritage Grants
• This year we have a
grant programme
worth around £4
million
• £2.7 million goes to
POWAR
• £1.3 million is for
secular HAR
• That is c.£50k pa per
local authority district
CSR Settlement
• 34% cut
• 33% cut to grants budget
• “total funding for … grants for heritage at
risk … are protected and have a cut of no
more than 15% …” SoS.
“What are your priorities?”
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BARs
SMARs
PAGARs
Battlefields at Risk
CAARs
POWARs
Where is the HAR work?
Priority HAR Themes – the region’s
distinctive Heritage at Risk
1. The industrial remains of the Dales
2. The ancient landscapes of Wolds and Moors
3. The textile industry of the West Riding
4. The metal trades of South Yorkshire
5. The city of Hull and the region’s fishing
industry
6. The designed landscapes of South Yorkshire
1. Lead mining remains in the Dales
• The public and
funders know about
barns and walls and
sheep
• 10 lead sites at risk
2. Ancient landscapes of the Wolds and
Moors
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185 SMARs in East Riding Council area
184 SMARs in Ryedale
49% of the region’s SMARs in 2 LAs
Another 13% (99) are in Scarborough
112 round barrows at risk in the North York
Moors alone
• and 2 castles
3. The West Riding textile industry
The textile industry
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8 mill sites
Elland
Halifax town centre and Piece Hall
Manningham
First White Cloth Hall
4. The metal trades of South Yorkshire
Recent Success
Darnall Works
5. The City of Hull and the region’s
Fishing Industry
• The Kasbah and Ice Factory, Grimsby
Docks
• The smoke houses of Hull and the Fruit
Market area
• Hull’s old Town
• Hull’s WW2 heritage
6. Parks and gardens of South Yorkshire
Rotunda, Wentworth Castle
• EH Grant
• HLF Grant
• LEADER Grant
Wentworth Woodhouse Stables
• EH development officer identified ERDF option
• EH approached owner to encourage a bid
• EH worked with client team to shape outputs
and budget to ERDF criteria
Working together on shared priorities
• There are few if any projects that any one party
can complete on its own.
• English Heritage, local authorities and third
sector organisations need to work together, to
shared priorities, to deliver solutions.
• EH priorities begin with the Heritage at Risk
Register, but narrow quickly to the six themes
that we have identified.
• We are here to help bring sites back to life. But
we have to be selective in what we support and
look to partnership funding.
Case study – Nostell Estate Yard
• Open book development
appraisal
• EH Grant £420k
• EH support for enabling
development in green belt
• RDPE Grant £100k
• Private investment £1.9
million
• Two monastic buildings
brought into sustainable
new use
Case study – Bolton Percy Gatehouse
• Open book development
appraisal
• EH grant £85k
• Country Houses
Foundation grant £65k
• RDPE grant £40k
• AHF grant and loan £57k
• Other grants £14k
• Vivat Trust funds £8k
• C16 property given
sustainable use as
holiday let
Case study – Whitby Brewhouse
• EH grant towards
project development
costs £8k
• EH advice supporting
re-roofing and
adaptation
• Sustainable reuse of
a decaying ruin as a
private house
Working together on shared priorities
• We want to work with owners, developers
and trusts, but need to engage early
Working together on shared
priorities
• We need to agree shared HAR priorities
with each local authority and work together
on them
PPS5
• Policy HE2.1: LPAs should ensure that
they have evidence about the HE and
heritage assets in their area and that this
is publicly documented…
• Policy HE2.3: LPAs should use the
evidence to assess the type, numbers,
distribution, significance and condition of
heritage assets…
PPS5
• Policy HE3.1: LDFs should set out a positive,
proactive strategy for the conservation and
enjoyment of the historic environment in their
area…
• Policy HE3.4: Plans at a local level are likely to
consider investment in and enhancement of
historic places … in more detail. They should
include consideration of how best to conserve …
heritage assets that are most at risk …
PPS5
• Policy HE5.1: LPAs should monitor the
impact of their policies and decisions on
the HE. They should pay particular
attention to the degree to which heritage
assets are at risk, how this will change and
how they propose to respond.
Working together on shared
priorities
• We need to harness all available
resources – conservation, enforcement,
development management, forward
planning, museums, leisure, libraries
Working together on shared
priorities
• If you are a local authority working up
priorities for your increasingly stretched
conservation team, come and see us so
that we can build shared ambitions for
your area
Let’s work together