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This page is a collection of advice & guidance notes, and links to projects and to useful resources.

This page is a collection of advice & guidance notes, and links to projects and to useful resources.

Page last updated: 12 Jun 2025, 07:43 AM

Guidance Documents

Sustainable Building Guide - Retro-fitting existing buildings (10.7 MB) (pdf)
Guidance for Methodist And Nonconformist Chapels (7.96 MB) (pdf)
St Austell Market House - Monitored Insulating Plaster Report (4.28 MB) (pdf)
Tregarne Chapel Energy Monitoring Report 2024 (6.63 MB) (pdf)
Creating The Market House ceramic sign (7 MB) (pdf)
Hanging Ceramic Signs Manual (7.36 MB) (pdf)
Timber paint testing GBH (5.37 MB) (pdf)
Historic Environment Record (HER)
Cornwall Historic Farmsteads Guidance
- CornwallHistoricFarmsteadsAssessmentFramework.pdf (2.05 MB) (pdf)
- Cornwall Historic Farmsteads Character Statement (9.97 MB) (pdf)
Cornwall Shopfronts Design Guide
Improving Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings
Cornish Distinctiveness

Links to guidance

A strategy for Cornwall's Historic Environment
Cornish Distinctiveness Toolkit
Housing Decarbonisation Strategy
Sustainability and Net Zero Key Resources - Historic Environment Forum
Building Stones of England Database - Historic England
Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for National Minorities
Cornwall Historic Environment Cultural Distinctiveness and Significance Project
Neighbourhood Plans
The 1990 planning Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas Act
Cornwall Local Plan
Historic England's guide to Identification and Designation of Heritage Assets
National Planning Policy Framework
Graffiti on Historic Buildings - Historic England Guidance
What is climate adaptation?
Cornwall Council's Climate Change Action Plan
Creating a vocabulary of climate change hazards for heritage
Cornwall Adaptation Strategy
FISH Climate Hazards Vocabulary
The Met Office: Local Climate Reports

Strategic Historic Environment: Projects

Bord Ertach Kernow
Cornwall's Historic Environment Strategy (2022 - 2030)
Cornish Distinctiveness
St Austell Townscape Heritage Scheme
Cornwall Historic Environment Cultural Distinctiveness and Significance Project