Historic entity

Enabling Development and Heritage Assets, Historic Environment Good Practice Advice in Planning Note 4, published by Historic England on 30 June 2020, defines an historic entity as: ‘…an outstanding ensemble of historically associated buildings, often land (which may include archaeological remains) and normally contents, whose significance would be inevitably and materially harmed by break-up and sale.’

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