Non-designated heritage assets

Policies and guidance

Non-designated heritage assets are covered in the government's National Planning Policy Framework. This framework defines non-designated heritage assets as “buildings, monuments, sites, places, areas or landscapes identified by plan-making bodies as having a degree of heritage significance meriting consideration in planning decisions but which do not meet the criteria for designated heritage assets.”

We created our criteria for identifying non-designated heritage assets using the Historic England policies and guidance.