The Heritage Office has been formally established and today launches its official website at heritage.gov.vin, where the Register of Protected Sites, guidance for owners and the Office's announcements will be published.
Protection and guidance
- Protected Sites
The Register of Protected Sites: eighteen entries across the six principal sites of the Network.
- Buildings and Monuments
The categories of building and monument the Office records, and the survey beginning on 14 September 2026.
- Heritage at Risk
Five protected sites whose condition gives cause for concern, and the action agreed for each.
- Proposing a Designation
How to propose a site, building or monument for protection, and how the Office assesses proposals.
- Consent for Works
When consent is needed for works to a protected site and how to apply for it.
- Frequently asked questions
What designation means, who may propose one and what owners of protected sites must do.
Latest announcements
All news- Heritage Office Publishes the Register of Protected Sites
The Register of Protected Sites opens with eighteen entries across the six principal sites of the Network: six scheduled monuments, eight listed buildings, three conservation areas and one registered landscape.
- Heritage Office Opens Proposals for Designation and Announces Survey of Buildings and Monuments
Anyone may propose a site, building or monument for protection from Monday 7 September 2026. A Network-wide survey of buildings and monuments begins at Central Exchange on 14 September and reaches every principal site by December.
- Heritage Office Publishes First Heritage at Risk Register and Arrangements for Consent
Five of the eighteen protected sites are recorded as at risk, two of them at the highest priority. Applications for consent for works to protected sites are accepted from 7 September 2026, with decision periods of eight or thirteen weeks.
About the Office
The Heritage Office of the Velocity Interoperability Network is responsible for the sites, buildings and monuments of historic, architectural or archaeological interest across the Velocity Interoperability Network.
It keeps the Register of Protected Sites, assesses proposals for designation, decides applications for consent for works, records the condition of sites at risk and is carrying out the first survey of buildings and monuments on a common standard.
Milestones
6 September 2026
Heritage Office established
Responsibility for the identification, designation and protection of sites, buildings and monuments across the Network.
6 September 2026
heritage.gov.vin launched
The Register of Protected Sites, the Heritage at Risk Register, guidance for owners and proposers, and the Office's announcements published on the official website.
6 September 2026
Register, procedures and survey announced
Eighteen entries confirmed to the Register, five recorded as at risk, proposals for designation and applications for consent accepted from 7 September, and a Network-wide survey of buildings and monuments beginning on 14 September.
Forthcoming
First decisions and the completed survey
The first decisions on proposals received in September are expected in December 2026, the survey reaches Meridian Court in the same month, and the first quarterly statistical release follows in October 2026. Each will be announced in the Newsroom.