{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-listed-buildings-and-conservation-areas-act-1990/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-listed-buildings-and-conservation-areas-act-1990/section-7.json",
  "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/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Restriction on works affecting listed buildings.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this Act, no person shall execute or cause to be executed any works for the demolition of a listed building or for its alteration or extension in any manner which would affect its character as a building of special architectural or historic interest, unless the works are authorised under section 8.\n(2) Subsection (1) is subject to section 33(1) of the Planning Act 2008 (exclusion of requirement for other consents for development for which development consent required).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 7 renumbered as s. 7(1) (1.3.2010) by virtue of Planning Act 2008 (c. 29), ss. 36, 241(8), Sch. 2 para. 39(2) (with s. 226); S.I. 2010/101, art. 2 (with art. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in S. 7(1) inserted (1.3.2010) by Planning Act 2008 (c. 29), ss. 36, 241(8), Sch. 2 para. 39(3) (with s. 226); S.I. 2010/101, art. 2 (with art. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 7(2) inserted (1.3.2010) by Planning Act 2008 (c. 29), ss. 36, 241(8), Sch. 2 para. 39(4) (with s. 226); S.I. 2010/101, art. 2 (with art. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 7, 8 modified by S.I. 1990/1519, reg. 13(1); applied (with modifications) by S.I. 1990/1519, reg. 12, Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 7 excluded (18.12.1996) by 1996 c. 61, s. 12, Sch. 7 paras. 1(1)(3), 2(1)(a)S. 7 applied (18.12.1996) by 1996 c. 61, s. 12, Sch. 8 paras. 1(5), 2(5)S. 7 restricted (1.10.1994) by S.I. 1994/1771, art. 5(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 7 excluded (22.7.2008) by Crossrail Act 2008 (c. 18), Sch. 9 paras. 1(1)(a)(3), 2(1)(a)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 7 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": "C5",
      "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": "C6",
      "text": "S. 7 excluded (23.2.2017) by High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Act 2017 (c. 7), s. 70(1), Sch. 18 paras. 1(2), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "S. 7 excluded (11.2.2021) by High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Act 2021 (c. 2), s. 64(1), Sch. 18 para. 1(2)(a) (with Sch. 18 para. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "S. 7 excluded (11.2.2021) by High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Act 2021 (c. 2), s. 64(1), Sch. 18 para. 2(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/9/section/7",
    "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."
}