Advice

A family picnics outside Mount Grace Priory

This section covers the full range of English Heritage's advice and guidance on key subjects relating to the historic environment, from planning to climate change and regeneration. Much of this work is informed by our extensive research programme and is regularly updated so that it reflects the latest issues facing the heritage sector.

We also publish Conservation Bulletin twice a year which highlights new thinking and innovative case studies on a wide range of heritage issues.

Planning consent

Find out about planning consent for listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, ship wrecks and conservation areas.

Our planning role

For more information on where we fit into the planning process and when we need to be consulted, see the section on Our Planning Role.

Our planning role

Policy & guidance

We produce advice and guidance on a very wide range of subjects from urban regeneration, metal theft and climate change to historic school buildings and archaeological science.

Advice by topic