CLG’s new LBC notifications regime

Letter to Chief Planning Officers: Arrangements for Handling Heritage Applications – Notification and Directions by the Secretary of State (England) Direction 2009
Extracted:
‘The new direction will extend the categories of listed building consent  applications which local planning authorities are not required to notify to the  Secretary of State. With effect from 1 December 2009 the Secretary of State will only  need to be notified of applications where the local planning authority is minded to  grant consent and has received written objections from English Heritage or one of  the six National Amenity Societies covered by the direction. At present the Secretary  of State has to be notified, broadly, of all applications which the planning authority is  minded to approve affecting Grade I and Grade II* buildings as well as those applications for Grade II (unstarred) buildings which involve the demolition of the  principal building, the principal wall of a principal building, or a substantial part of the  interior.’

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