Monument Declaration and Historic Buildings Grading System
There was no direct link between graded buildings and monuments. As of July 2007, 607 buildings had been graded (since 1980), 54 of these, including five Grade I buildings, had been demolished. As of August 2007, of 151 buildings classified as Grade I, only 28 pre-war buildings have been declared monuments since 1980.
On November 26, 2008, the Antiquities Advisory Board announced that the declaration of monuments would be related to the grading of historic buildings.
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