Indicator Data
The evidence collected is used by historic environment professionals to understand how the historic environment is changing, develop policies to protect it and to demonstrate its importance.
Data is organised according to the five strategic priorities of Heritage 2020 below (you can find out more about Heritage 2020 from the Historic Environment Forum web pages). The data is accompanied by easy-to-use statistics in Excel spreadsheets. These enable year-on-year changes in the historic environment to be tracked at national, regional and, wherever possible, local level:
Discovery, identification and understanding: Provides indicators on the scale and scope of the historic environment and assets
Constructive conservation and sustainable management: Includes indicators on the overall condition of the historic environment, indicators from the Heritage at Risk programme and data on managing the historic environment, including planning statistics
Public engagement: Presents data on participation in heritage, heritage membership and volunteering in the sector
Capacity building: Indicators of heritage investments from private, public and voluntary sectors as well as the skills and capacity of the sector
Helping things to happen: Includes indicators of the importance of guardianship
Local Authority Profiles
Local Authority Profiles are comprehensive datasets and information on the historic environment for each local authority in England. Local communities with an interest in conserving their local heritage and local authority staff can find a range of information.
The following categories of information are available in the local authority profiles:
- Number of designated heritage assets
- Number of designated heritage assets classed as 'at risk'
- Whether there is a Heritage Champion
- Number of planning applications, listed building consents and parks and garden consents
- The number of historic environment specialists advising the local authority
Please note: Some users with older versions of Excel may experience difficulties opening the files. Please treat them as a trusted document in any dialogue boxes that pop up. If you still experience difficulties, please email Heritage-Counts@HistoricEngland.org.uk so we can send you the files.
Visitor attraction trends
In 2017, Historic England commissioned BDRC to produce a report on Visitor Attraction Trends in England. The report provides a comprehensive England-wide analysis of heritage attractions and visits in 2016 and trend data.