Verifying Dorset’s heritage assets

A project where Dorset residents have nominated locally important buildings, structures, and places has reached its next stage.

Dorset Council is asking residents to check the heritage assets that have been suggested, to make sure that they are still relevant and can stay on the list.

Evidence of past communities and individuals who have left their mark on Dorset surrounds us. This is sometimes called the historic environment.

It is made up of individual features, that each provide their own insight into past lives. These features can take many forms:

• buildings
• street patterns
• field boundaries
• cemeteries
• street furniture
• public parks
• earthworks
• artwork

These historic structures, monuments and spaces are known as heritage assets. Residents were asked through a consultation process to put forward these locally important assets to be assessed to go on a local heritage list.

The Local Heritage List will provide a free publicly accessible record of non-designated heritage assets, whose conservation will then be a material consideration in planning decisions.

Cllr Shane Bartlett, Dorset Council’s Cabinet member for Planning and Emergency Planning, said:

“I am pleased that this project has got to this point. It is very important that we help to promote and protect local heritage and forge stronger connections between people and their local areas.”

To view the list and help the council check these assets visit Dorset Local Heritage List verification it will be available until Wednesday 8 January 2025

It is not possible to make further nominations at this stage.