Applicants for heritage grants over £50,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund will need to have regard to the Fund’s new Planning Greener Heritage Projects guidance. Although the diversity of projects precludes use of minimum standards, the guidance sets out the environmental impacts it expects to see considered and the type responses it believes would be appropriate for grant funding. The guidance affects both stages of the grant application. “We recognise that more sustainable solutions sometimes (but not always) involve higher upfront costs,” says the guidance. “We are prepared to fund these extra costs where we consider them to offer value for money.” The guidance includes advice on energy, water, building materials, construction waste, soil, biodiversity and transport

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