Section 40: Listed buildings and conservation areas.

Housing and Planning Act 1986 · 1986 c. 63View on legislation.gov.uk

Part VI: Miscellaneous Provisions

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—

the treatment of free-standing objects and structures within the curtilage of a listed building;
the scope of the exception for urgent works to a listed building;
the grant of listed building consent subject to the subsequent approval of detail;
applications for the variation or discharge of conditions attached to listed building consent;
the extent of the exemption accorded to ecclesiastical buildings;
dangerous structure orders in respect of listed buildings;
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;
the control of demolition in a conservation area;
the form of an application for listed building consent; and
the powers of the Secretary of State with respect to applications for listed building consent.

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