Member

Assets can, of course, be upgraded or downgraded from grade 1, grade 2, and grade 2*. Why not, therefore, pin the provisions in the Bill to a specific grade level, rather than set out in the Bill, in primary legislation, those which happen to be grade 1 at the moment but might come to be downgraded, and miss out those that are not yet listed at this level? It also misses out the separate categorisation of scheduled monuments, which exist separately to the listings process. For instance, the Dover Patrol Monument by Sir Aston Webb, which commemorates 2,000 war dead from the Great War, was listed at grade 2 in 1966. It was upgraded to grade 2* in 2015, but it is a scheduled monument and surely, even by the Government’s logic, deserves some protection.