Closed Guidance Consultations

Assessing Opportunity and Sensitivity using Historic Landscape Characterisation

This guidance aims to facilitate a better understanding of the historic landscape’s vulnerability or sensitivity to types of change, and thus the types of place that might be best avoided. The consultation closed on 31 August 2025.

Historic England’s Draft Industrial Heritage Strategy

The consultation on the Strategy which sets out the key priorities for our internationally important industrial heritage closed on 7 June 2021.

Canal & River Trust: Proposed Listed Building Consent Order

The consultation on a proposed draft national Listed Building Consent Order (LBCO) for works to listed buildings controlled or managed by the Canal & River Trust, closed on 14 January 2019.

Conservation Principles

The consultation on our revised Conservation Principles closed on 2 February 2018. We have analysed the results of the consultation and are currently deciding how best to take this document forward. We are not expecting to publish a new version for at least six months.

Historic England Advisory Note on the Reconstruction of Heritage Assets

The consultation on the Reconstruction of Heritage Assets closed on 22 June 2016. We have revised the text in the light of the consultation responses and we will check it against the new version of the NPPF and the latest international conservation developments. We are expecting to publish the final version of this advice within the next few months.

Copies of closed consultation documents are still available for reference until the final version is published.

The final published guidance and recommendations might be different to the earlier consultation drafts.

If you have any questions about these closed consultations, please contact us via the email address below.