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  Changes to heritage planning regime proposed
  
  Legislation which will mean changes to the heritage planning regime involving listed buildings, conservation area consents and new provisions for heritage partnership arrangements have been published by the Government.
  
  The measures are included in the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill which has been drawn up by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).
  
  Under these proposed changes instead of having a separate system of conservation area demolition consent for certain buildings in such areas, proposals for demolition would in the future be considered by the local planning authority as part of the application for planning permission. There would be a new offence for failing to obtain such a planning permission.
  
  The measures also include provision for identifying structures fixed to or within the curtilage of a listed building which don't have to be treated as part of the listed building.
  
  The measures also propose a modification to the current system of Certificates of Immunity from Listing (COI) which allows that a COI can be applied at any time for a building and not just, as at present, when a planning application is made or has been granted.
  
  The Bill includes measures for the new system of heritage partnership arrangements between a local planning authority and the owner of a listed building which would allow for specified works involving the alteration or extension of a building. Such an agreement, though, could not be used to grant listed building consent for demolition.
  
  
  Roger Milne
  
  31 May 2012

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