Registered Battlefields.
Sites of significant historic battles, registered for their historic interest. Designated heritage assets, where the significance lies in the ground and the terrain rather than in buildings.
- Development outside the registered area
- Agricultural continuation
- Interpretation and access works
- Built development across the battlefield
- Significant regrading or earthworks
- Schemes severing key sight lines
Registered battlefields are designated heritage assets. Substantial harm should be exceptional, and any harm requires clear and convincing justification weighed against public benefits.
Significance is carried by topography, sight lines and buried remains, so groundworks and changes to landform matter more than elevational design.
How schemes actually fare inside this designation — approval rates, appeal survival, which authorities apply it hardest — needs the designation joined to the decision record. That join isn’t built, so those figures aren’t published here. We won’t estimate them.
Where one applies, the constraint is the whole registered area, not a boundary line.