Saturday 14 April 2018

Heritage and Cultural Property Crime


The Heritage and Cultural Property Crime: National Strategic Assessment 2017 is now available online

The key threats to heritage in England and Wales are perceived as:

  • Architectural theft – in particular metal and stone 
  • Criminal damage – in particular damage caused by fire (‘arson’) 
  • Unlawful metal detecting (‘nighthawking’) 
  • Unlawful disturbance and salvage of maritime sites 
  • Anti-social behaviour – in particular fly-tipping and off-road driving
  • Unauthorised works to heritage assets
  • Illicit trade in cultural objects

Some of these issues (e.g. lead theft from churches, so-called nighthawking, metal-detecting and the code of practice, off-road driving, and the illicit trade in cultural objects) have been covered by LM (and its sister blog, Heritage Futures) over a long period of time.


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