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Part IE+W Listed Buildings

Chapter IIE+W Authorisation of works affecting listed buildings

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Chs. I, II (ss. 1-26) and IV (ss. 38-44) of Pt. I, ss. 54-56, 59-61, 66, 68-72, 74-76 and 88: power to apply conferred (10.11.1993) by 1993 c. 28, s. 171(4)(b); S.I. 1993/2762, art.3.

[F1Buildings in England: heritage partnership agreementsE+W

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 26A, 26B and cross-heading inserted (25.4.2013 for specified purposes, 6.4.2014 in so far as not already in force) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), ss. 60(2), 103(1)(i)(3); S.I. 2014/416, art. 3(a)

26A Heritage partnership agreementsE+W

(1)A relevant local planning authority may make an agreement under this section (a “heritage partnership agreement”) with any owner of a listed building, or a part of such a building, situated in England.

(2)Any of the following may also be a party to a heritage partnership agreement in addition to an owner and the relevant local planning authority—

(a)any other relevant local planning authority;

(b)the Secretary of State;

(c)the Commission;

(d)any person who has an interest in the listed building;

(e)any occupier of the listed building;

(f)any person involved in the management of the listed building;

(g)any other person who appears to the relevant local planning authority appropriate as having special knowledge of, or interest in, the listed building, or in buildings of architectural or historic interest more generally.

(3)A heritage partnership agreement may contain provision—

(a)granting listed building consent under section 8(1) in respect of specified works for the alteration or extension of the listed building to which the agreement relates, and

(b)specifying any conditions to which the consent is subject.

(4)The conditions to which listed building consent may be subject under subsection (3)(b) in respect of specified works are those that could be attached to listed building consent in respect of the works if consent were to be granted under section 16.

(5)If a heritage partnership agreement contains provision under subsection (3), nothing in sections 10 to 26 and 28 applies in relation to listed building consent for the specified works, subject to any regulations under section 26B(2)(f).

(6)A heritage partnership agreement may also—

(a)specify or describe works that would or would not, in the view of the parties to the agreement, affect the character of the listed building as a building of special architectural or historic interest;

(b)make provision about the maintenance and preservation of the listed building;

(c)make provision about the carrying out of specified work, or the doing of any specified thing, in relation to the listed building;

(d)provide for public access to the listed building and the provision to the public of associated facilities, information or services;

(e)restrict access to, or use of, the listed building;

(f)prohibit the doing of any specified thing in relation to the listed building;

(g)provide for a relevant public authority to make payments of specified amounts and on specified terms—

(i)for, or towards, the costs of any works provided for under the agreement; or

(ii)in consideration of any restriction, prohibition or obligation accepted by any other party to the agreement.

(7)For the purposes of subsection (6)(g), each of the following, if a party to the agreement, is a relevant public authority—

(a)the Secretary of State;

(b)the Commission;

(c)a relevant local planning authority.

(8) In this section “ specified ” means specified or described in the heritage partnership agreement.

(9)In this section and section 26B—

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2Ss. 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))