Historic England has produced an Advice Note to provide clarity and support consistent decision-making for proposals to reduce carbon emissions and improve the energy efficiency of historic buildings whilst conserving their significance and ensuring they remain viable places to live in the future.
The links below lead to technical advice and guidance on climate change mitigation and adaptation for resilience, including energy efficiency, retrofit, and Net Zero. You can also visit the Climate Change action hub page for more advice and research including on climate change risks and the relevance of heritage to nature recovery projects.
- Historic England’s Your Home pages provide practical advice to homeowners and occupiers on maintaining, repairing and improving historic buildings to increase energy efficiency.
- Guidance also provided to improve resilience to flooding. See Flooding and Historic Buildings
- Heritage organisations or businesses using historic buildings can find out how to move towards net zero carbon emissions.
- Technical Guidance, including Technical Tuesday webinars, provides advice on looking after historic buildings and sites, including climate change adaptation, retrofit and energy efficiency advice.
- Planning advice helps professionals and owners of historic buildings to understand how change is managed through the planning system, including the delivery of climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Upcoming: 29 April at 1pm – Heat pumps in historic buildings: Addressing myths and misconceptions
Covering all aspects of the environmental benefits and impacts associated with this low carbon heating technology. Also focussing on operational carbon emissions, embodied carbon and the refrigerants used in heat pumps to help you to understand why heat pumps are vital to the decarbonisation of heating in the UK. Come prepared with anything that you would like to ask or share! Register here