Article 20 Notification of applications affecting listed buildings
Subject to sub-paragraph (4), before granting permission for any development which includes or involves the alteration to or extension of a listed building, a planning authority shall notify the Secretary of State of the application, giving particulars of the proposed development in so far as it affects the listed building.
The planning authority shall not determine the application until after the expiration of 28 days from the date of giving notice of it to the Secretary of State and the Secretary of State within that period—
may direct the authority that he does not intend to require reference of the application to him; or
may direct the authority that he requires further time in which to consider whether to require the application to be referred to him, and substitute for the period of 28 days such longer period as may be specified in the Secretary of State’s direction.
In respect of applications for permission for development of the kind described in paragraph (1) above, the Secretary of State may give a direction to a planning authority requiring them, in such cases or classes of cases as may be specified in the direction, to give to him and to such other persons as may be so specified, notice of the application and of the decision, if any, taken by the authority thereon.
This article does not apply to any application in respect of development requiring listed building consent, where the application for such consent would fall within a description specified, in a direction issued by the Secretary of State under paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 10 to the Act, as being exempt from the requirements of notification set out at paragraph 5 of that Schedule.