Action Plan

The documents on this page provide details of why and how English Heritage is implementing the National Heritage Protection Plan (NHPP), and report on progress.

The first annual report provides details of progress with the NHPP between May 2011 and March 2012.

• The Overview gives a general summary of progress with highlights and case studies.
• The Activity Programme sets out in more detail the progress against each of the year's agreed Activities.

• National Heritage Protection Plan 2011-15
  Publication Date: 26 Apr 2012
  Year-end report and Activity Programme, May 2011 - March 2012

For an introduction and overview, read the National Heritage Protection Plan.

• National Heritage Protection Plan

The heart of delivery of the NHPP is the Action Plan. This is divided into 8 themes (called Measures). These are further sub-divided into a series of Activities comprising over 400 projects. The Activities address specific areas of work (e.g. places of worship, historic ports, strategic designation) that have been identified as priorities for the Plan.

If you are interested in finding out more detail about the Activities, consult the documents below.

• Measure 1 - Foresight
  Foresight is essential to a plan focused on establishing threats and developing responses. 
• Measure 2 - Threat: Assessment and Response
  This Group of Activities is aimed at 'winnable battles' to counter, offset or mitigate the loss of our most important heritage.
• Measure 3 - Understanding: Recognition/Identification of the Resource
  Rapid survey of areas of the country where even basic identification of what heritage we have is poor and where there is a real risk of losing nationally significant landscapes and assets before we even know what is at risk.
• Measure 4 - Understanding: Assessment of Character and Significance
  This Measure focuses on a range of themes and places which are insufficiently understood, threatened by change, and of potentially high significance.
• Measure 5: Responses: Protecting Significance
  The development of formal protection systems, such as Designation, and the development and expansion of Historic Environment Records.
• Measure 6: Managing Change
  This measure sets out English Heritage's statutory role in the planning process, giving pre-application advice and providing timely, constructive advice on managing major change to the historic environment.
• Measure 7 - Responses: Protecting and Managing English Heritage Historic Properties
  Protecting and managing change to the national collection of historic sites, properties and archives in our care.
• Measure 8 - Responses: Grant-aid for Protection
  The provision of grant-aid and advice to owners and managers of heritage assets; and the funding of emergency investigation to offset the imminent and unavoidable loss of nationally significant assets.
• NHPP Acronyms Glossary

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