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  • Privacy Notice for Historic Environment Division

    Topics:
    • Historic environment, 
    • DfC corporate, 
    • Privacy notice

    Date published: 1 April 2025

    Last updated: 6 August 2025

    This privacy notice from the Department for Communities (DfC) tells our customers and service users how we process your personal data in accordance with our legal obligations under the Data Protection Act (DPA) and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UKGDPR).

    This division processes personal information for the following purposes:

    • Maintaining ownership and occupier records for historic sites, monuments and buildings
    • Registering users of the Historic Environment Record of Northern Ireland (HERoNI)
    • Contacting those who have opted into our mailing lists
    • Partnership agreements
    • The event application process at our sites
    • Processing payments
    • Regulating the excavations of property and sites
    • Processing and determining Scheduled Monument Consent applications
    • Assessing and processing grant and agreement applications
    • To compile and amend the list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest in line with Section 80 of the Planning Act (NI) 2011
    • Assessing and responding to planning authorities as a statutory consultee to the planning process
    • Enforcement activities
    • CCTV Footage for the purposes of public safety and the protection and detection of crime

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    • Privacy Notice for Historic Environment DivisionAdobe PDF (150.54 KB)

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