Contested Heritage: Removing Art from Land and Historic Buildings

Statues, sculpture and paintings may be part of buildings or land. If so, property ownership is made more complex. Removing such works might require a planning or heritage consent. These issues are important for the art market and of wider public interest in the debate over contested heritage.

It includes:

• Property law on ownership, conversion of goods and sale
• The working of listed building consent, planning permission, scheduled monument consent and conservation area
• The meaning of ‘building’, ‘fixed’ and ‘curtilage'
• Full analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dill v Secretary of State [2020] UKSC 20
• The recent changes in law and policy on contested heritage
• Changing street names and moving church treasures
• Full coverage of the law and policy in England, Wales and Northern Ireland

This book will be of interest to art lawyers, planning, property and private client lawyers dealing with heritage, planning and heritage consultants, conservation students and art law students.