Sustainable Aggregates

English Heritage

Funded Projects to date:	250
Value of Funding:	£ 23.75m

English Heritage is the Government’s statutory advisor on the historic environment. It exists to protect and promote England’s spectacular historic environment and ensure that its past is researched and understood.

English Heritage is sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) although it works with a range of Government Departments, notably Communities and Local Government (CLG) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), to hep realise the potential of the historic environment.

English Heritage has been a major distributor of Aggregates Levy Sustainability Funds (ALSF) since its introduction in 2002. The overarching aim of the English Heritage programme has always been to reduce the impact of aggregate extraction on the historic environment, both terrestrial and marine, through the commissioning of high quality research and communication projects, the outcomes of which are relevant and accessible to curators and decision-makers, to industry and to the general public. The headline objectives of the English Heritage scheme over the last six years have been:

developing the capacity to manage aggregate extraction landscapes in the future
delivering to public and professional audiences the full benefits of knowledge gained through past work in advance of aggregates extraction
reducing the physical impacts of current extraction where these lie beyond current planning controls and the normal obligations placed on minerals extraction
addressing the effects of old mineral planning permissions
promoting understanding of the conservation issues arising from the impacts of aggregates extraction on the historic environment

Projects have been commissioned from a wide range of organisation including local government departments, commercial, consulting and contracting organisations, schools and universities, museums, voluntary and community bodies and the aggregates industry itself.

Project reports are available for viewing on the English Heritage website www.english-heritage.org.uk/ALSF and the Archaeological Data Service web site http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/projArch/alsf/ which can also be reached from the Reviews and Reports section of this website.