Policy

This leaflet provides information on Historic Scotland grants for ancient monuments and historic buildings and how they apply....

This leaflet provides guidance on how to look after such structures within graveyards....

Historic Scotland has been carrying out a resurvey of listed buildings in the Borders mill towns in recent years, culminating in the Hawick Burgh resurvey of 2007…8. This booklet celebrates the...

Edinburgh�s first World Heritage Site Management Plan which provides a framework for conservation in the heart of Scotland's capital city....

This survey sought to map and describe the infrastructure associated with organisations operating in the historic built environment sector and to identify organisations with an interest in the contemporary built environment....

This leaflet sets out the legal position about metal detecting on scheduled monuments in every day language....

Passed to the future, published in 2002, set out Historic Scotland's policy for the sustainable management of the historic environment. It was superceded by Scottish Historic Environment Policy 1: Scotland's Historic Environment, in March 2007, but remains a valuable resource in implememting a sustainable approach to the historic environment....

A guide to scheduling under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, for owners, occupiers and land managers....

This document explains the new voluntary arrangements for dealing with proposals for works to the external fabric of buildings in ecclesiastical use which, were it not for the exemption, would require listed building consent. ...

This informal guide to the legislation which protects Scotland�s historic buildings, describes how Historic Scotland and the planning authorities administer that legislation....