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This page relates to the 2019–2024 National Park Management Plan, which is now archived. For the latest aims and objectives, please visit the 2025–2030 Management Plan landing page.
Help local people to restore, repair and – where possible – bring back into use nationally-important historical sites, buildings and structures so that less than 4% of scheduled monuments and listed buildings are considered ‘at risk’ by 2024.
How the local partners are doing on this objective
Progress: During 204/25, repairs were completed on 11 Listed Buildings that were previously considered to be at risk. As a result, the total number of Listed Buildings at risk in the National Park went down from 72 to 61. There was no change in the number of Scheduled Monuments at risk.
Over the lifetime of the Management Plan, the number of listed buildings at risk has been reduced from 77 (3.6%) to 61 (2.8%). The number of Scheduled Monuments at risk has not changed, and remains at 10 (3.4%).
Press Releases & related articles:
30 September 2025 – Listed buildings among plan achievements
14 November 2023 – Westmorland monument saved
Rationale: Each scheduled monument (298) and listed building (2,128) is nationally important. The number of scheduled monuments has increased by almost half as a result of the extension of the National Park boundary in 2016. In 2017-18, 11 scheduled monuments (3.7%) and 75 listed buildings (3.5%) were assessed as being at risk. Just maintaining those levels will be challenging, unless significant new funding can be found.
Lead partner: Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority
Supporting partners: Natural England; Historic England; Settle-Carlisle Railway Development Company;
Further information: YDNPA – Listed Buildings
Cost over 5 years: £2,200,000
Funding shortfall: £1,200,000
Related objectives: A1; A5, A7, A8, A9; F5; F6
Ecosystem services: Sense of place and inspiration; Sense of history
Trade-offs: Protecting archaeological sites can have impacts on the way that the is managed for habitats (C1), wildlife (C2); water quality (C3), and tourism development (E2). Restoring listed buildings can have implications for priority wildlife species – notably bats (C2). These impacts are managed and mitigated through the policies set out in the Yorkshire Dales Local Plan
Baseline: 11 Scheduled monuments (3.7%) and 75 Listed buildings (3.5%) at risk (March 2018)
‘State of the Park‘ indicator – YES