{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heathrow-airportlondon-noise-insulation-grants-scheme-1989/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heathrow-airportlondon-noise-insulation-grants-scheme-1989/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/247",
  "legislation_title": "The Heathrow Airport–London Noise Insulation Grants Scheme 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heathrow-airportlondon-noise-insulation-grants-scheme-1989",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Dwellings to which the Scheme applies",
  "text": "(1) This Scheme applies to all dwellings, being dwellings the construction of which was completed before 1st April 1980, situated within the area shown hatched red on the map marked “Heathrow Airport–London Noise Insulation Grants Scheme 1989” sealed with the Official Seal of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at the office of the Departmental Record Officer, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London, SW1.\n(2) For the purposes of this Scheme–\n(a) all bedrooms and a maximum of two living rooms in a dwelling shall qualify for insulation works:\nProvided that–\n(i) a room used, or intended for use, only as a kitchen or scullery, or a room in which there is installed a flueless combustion appliance (including a gas cooker), and\n(ii) any room added to a dwelling, if the addition was completed after 31st March 1980,\nshall not be eligible for insulation;\n(b) a dwelling converted into two or more dwellings shall be treated as a single dwelling if the conversion was completed after 31st March 1980.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/247/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:49:39.256906+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}