{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-1986/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-1986/section-40.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/63",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Planning Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-1986",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Listed buildings and conservation areas.",
  "text": "The enactments relating to listed buildings and conservation areas are amended in accordance with Part I of Schedule 9 with respect to the following matters—\n(a) the treatment of free-standing objects and structures within the curtilage of a listed building;\n(b) the scope of the exception for urgent works to a listed building;\n(c) the grant of listed building consent subject to the subsequent approval of detail;\n(d) applications for the variation or discharge of conditions attached to listed building consent;\n(e) the extent of the exemption accorded to ecclesiastical buildings;\n(f) dangerous structure orders in respect of listed buildings;\n(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;\n(h) the control of demolition in a conservation area;\n(i) the form of an application for listed building consent; and\n(j) the powers of the Secretary of State with respect to applications for listed building consent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/63/section/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:53:53.851580+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."
}