{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-listed-buildings-and-conservation-areas-act-1990/section-16",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/9",
  "legislation_title": "Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-listed-buildings-and-conservation-areas-act-1990",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Decision on application.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the previous provisions of this Part, the local planning authority or, as the case may be, the Secretary of State may grant or refuse an application for listed building consent and, if they grant consent, may grant it subject to conditions.\n(2) In considering whether to grant listed building consent for any works the local planning authority or the Secretary of State shall have special regard to the desirability of preserving the building or its setting or any features of special architectural or historic interest which it possesses.\n(3) Any listed building consent shall (except in so far as it otherwise provides) enure for the benefit of the building and of all persons for the time being interested in it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 16 modified (W.) (30.4.2012) by The Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Wales) Regulations 2012 (No. 793), regs. 1, 16, Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 7-29 applied (Isles of Scilly) (with modifications) (2.10.2013) by The Town and Country Planning (Isles of Scilly) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2148), arts. 1(1), 3, Sch. 1 (with art. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 16(1): functions of local authority not to be responsibility of an executive of the authority (E.) (16.11.2000) by virtue of S.I. 2000/2853, reg. 2(1), Sch. 1 Table A21"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 16(1)(2): functions of local authority not to be responsibility of an executive of the authority (E.) (16.11.2000) by virtue of S.I. 2000/2853, reg. 2(1), Sch. 1 Table A20"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 16(1)(2) applied (with modifications) (E.) (6.4.2014) by The Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Heritage Partnership Agreements) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/550), regs. 1(1), 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Ss. 14, 15, 16 modified by S.I. 1990/1519, reg. 13(1); applied (with modifications) by S.I. 1990/1519, reg. 12, Sch. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2023/55",
      "affecting_title": "Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted in earlier amending provision 2023 c. 55, s. 102(3)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2024/1061",
      "affecting_title": "The Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023 (Consequential Provision) (Primary Legislation) Regulations 2024"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied by 1992 c. 42, s. 17(2) (as substituted)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2025/34",
      "affecting_title": "Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/9/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:43:21.398409+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."
}