Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This order brings into force on 1st April 1987 section 40 and Part I of Schedule 9 to the Housing and Planning Act 1986 (together with consequential repeals) which principally relate to amendments to the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 in respect of the following matters concerning listed buildings and buildings in conservation areas—

(a)

the treatment of free-standing objects and structures within the curtilage of a listed building;

(b)

the scope of the exception for urgent works to a listed building;

(c)

the grant of listed building consent subject to the subsequent approval of detail;

(d)

applications for the variation or discharge of conditions attached to listed building consent;

(e)

the extent of the exemption accorded to ecclesiastical buildings;

(f)

dangerous structure orders in respect of listed buildings;

(g)

the power of a local authority, the Secretary of State or the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England to carry out urgent works for the preservation of a building;

(h)

the control of demolition in a conservation area;

(i)

the form of an application for listed building consent;

(j)

the powers of the Secretary of State with respect to applications for listed building consent; and

(k)

the application to local planning authorities of provisions relating to listed buildings.