RISE Round-Up - Retrofit for historic and heritage homes

Knowledge Hub articles

Exploring planning constraints (including heritage) - A deep dive guide through potential planning constraints related to older buildings, conservation areas or specific local building types.

Quick Guides and toolkits

Heritage planning toolkit - This toolkit sets out the primary legislation relevant to heritage planning and suggests where planning or listed building consent may be needed. Understanding this context should help you develop applications for consent, which is then considered.

Conservation areas - This quick guide has been prepared to assist local authorities and registered providers that are considering making buildings in conservation areas more energy efficient.

Writing heritage statements - This toolkit has been prepared to guide local authorities and registered providers of social housing in the process of writing a heritage statement.

Heritage statement key terms - This quick guide break downs the key terms used in heritage statements.

Listed buildings - This quick guide has been prepared for those that are considering making listed buildings more energy efficient.

Podcasts

Retrofitting historic archetypes - In this podcast, subject matter experts Sophie Norton and Dan Leeming from Turner & Townsend, talk all things historic archetypes, exploring the reasons for retrofitting this building archetype, the benefits gained, potential challenges and how these can be mitigated.

Masterclasses on demand

Planning and heritage properties YouTube playlist - Some of RISE's most popular Masterclass recordings can be found on this RISE YouTube playlist.

Case studies

Green Heritage Homes Project - Bath and North East Somerset - This case study document highlights the services specifically provided by B&NES Council as part of the project, which help owner-occupiers of listed buildings make them more energy efficient and guide potential applicants through the listed building consent process.