Listed Building Guidance Notes - South Derbyshire District Council

SOUTH DERBYSHIRE DISTRICT COUNCIL
Application for
Listed Building
Consent
A guide to making an application for
Listed Building Consent
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
These notes have been prepared to help you submit an application for Listed Building Consent
and fill in the application form correctly. Please read these notes carefully before you try and fill
in the application form. If you do not fill in the form correctly your application may be
unnecessarily delayed.
You must include scale drawings of your proposals with your application. Please note that all
drawings must be to a metric scale only. The use of imperial units of measurements or
dimensions may result in your application being declared invalid.
We recommend that you contact officers from the Planning Department to discuss your
proposals prior to submitting your application. Officers may be able to make suggestions that
mean your application is more likely to be approved. It is a criminal offence to carry out
unauthorised works to a listed building. This applies even if the works are urgent.
Unauthorised works can lead to prosecution.
1. NAME AND ADDRESS OF APPLICANT/AGENT
You can complete the form yourself, or you may employ an agent to do this for you. If you do
use an agent we will direct all correspondence, negotiations concerning your application and the
Decision Notice to your agent.
2. APPLICATION SITE
Please supply the full postal address of the site including the postcode. You must include 4
copies of the location plan with your application. The plan must show the site and neighbouring
properties and roads with a red line around the site. Other neighbouring land in your ownership
must be outlined in blue. The scale of your site plan should be 1:2500 or 1:1250.

3. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED WORKS
This should state the nature of the proposed alteration(s), extension(s) and demolition(s) and the
purpose of the works. You should also state the type of new materials to be used.
For example: Demolition of outbuildings, internal alterations and extension to form
kitchen/dining room. The new extension will be constructed in coursed natural gritstone
with a Welsh blue slate roof and painted softwood casement windows.
4. GRANT AIDED BUILDINGS
You must inform the Planning Department if you have applied, or are in the process of applying,
for grant aid to assist in work to a listed building. Notification of your application will be given to
the donor to allow them an opportunity to comment on your proposals.
5. NATURE OF WORKS
Listed Building Consent is needed for any alterations, extensions or demolitions that affect the
character of a listed building. This applies to all parts of the building, interior and exterior,
regardless of grade and whether the feature is mentioned in the official list description. It may
also apply to associated buildings that are within the curtilage of the principal building. Curtilage
buildings are ones that form part of the land and have done so since before 1 July 1948. This
will include boundary walls.
Any demolition work may involve the loss of historic fabric. You will need to show, in Question 8
an assessment of the significance of the fabric to be destroyed.
6. PROPOSED CHANGES
The information you provide in this Section will also need to be shown in detail on your plans and
elevational drawings, and as annotations, where appropriate.
The purpose of this Section of the application is to allow the Planning Department and the
various bodies who may be consultees on your application to see, in brief, the extent of the work
you are proposing. It is also for you to state clearly all work you intend to undertake.
For an extensive or complex scheme, the submission of a Schedule of Works would be
appropriate.
7. PREVIOUS PLANNING APPLICATIONS
The works that you are proposing may also require Planning Permission or Building Regulation
approval. It is helpful if you can state whether you have applied or are concurrently applying.
You should not assume that the granting of Planning Permission automatically guarantees the
granting of Listed Building Consent.
8. IMPACT ASSESSMENT STATEMENT
Please refer to the separate sheet entitled ‘Guidance Notes for preparing an Impact Assessment
Statement’

9. APPLICATION CHECKLIST
Your application may be such that not all of the items on the checklist are considered necessary.
However, you may be required to submit items at the request of the Officer dealing with your
application if they are, or become, relevant.
ALL ITEMS a) – f) LISTED IN PART 9 OF THE APPLICATION FORM ARE ESSENTIAL FOR
YOUR APPLICATION
Please do not forget to send 4 copies of your completed application form, location plan,
drawings and any further supporting information.
10. CERTIFICATES
When you make an application for Listed Building Consent the Planning Department will need to
know who owns the property. If you are the only owner of all the land relating to the application
please sign Certificate A. (Owner means a person having a freehold interest or leasehold
interest, the unexpired term of which is at least 7 years.)
If you are a joint owner of the property, own only part of the property, are a lessee or a
prospective purchaser, sign Certificate B. You will also need to complete and send the Notice
Number 1 to each owner (included within this package). If you do not know the names of all or
any of the owners, you will need to complete other certificates which are available from the
Planning Department.
DECLARATION
The application is not valid unless signed and dated.
FEES
There are no fees to be paid for submitting a Listed Building Consent Application.
CONDITIONS OF CONSENT
When you receive your consent there may be conditions attached. You will need to read them
carefully and make sure that you comply with them before starting work. It is important that
these conditions are passed on to your contractor.
RECORDING
When Listed Building Consent has been granted, it may not be possible to start work until you
have notified English Heritage. By law, you must give English Heritage 1 month's notice of works
of demolition or substantial alteration and allow their staff access to the building so that they may,
if necessary, make a record of the building before work begins.
A form that you can send to English Heritage will be included with your Decision Notice.
In some cases where this Council considers that an essential part of the character, or a
substantial part of the historic fabric of the building will be lost, a condition that recording work
must be undertaken prior to commencement of work will be a part of your Listed Building
Consent. Details of what recording is required will be provided after you receive your Decision
Notice.

FURTHER QUERIES
If you have further queries regarding your application then please contact the Planning
Department by telephoning 01283 595752 or calling in at the offices in Swadlincote (see address
below). It is always advisable to telephone before visiting to find out if you need to make an
appointment to see a specific Officer.
WHERE TO SEND YOUR APPLICATION
Please return your completed application form to the address below:
PLANNING DEPARTMENT
SOUTH DERBYSHIRE DISTRICT COUNCIL
CIVIC OFFICES, CIVIC WAY
SWADLINCOTE
DERBYSHIRE
DE11 0AH.
Telephone:01283 595752. Fax: 01283 595850 Email:planning@southderbys.gov.uk