Planning FAQ
Can I extend if my home is listed?
Yes, but you need Listed Building Consent alongside planning permission. Heritage Statement required. Grade I/II* always involve Historic England.
Yes, but you need Listed Building Consent alongside planning permission. Heritage Statement required. Grade I/II* always involve Historic England.
Yes, but you need listed building consent as well as any planning permission, and the design has to be justified against the building's significance. Listed building consent carries no fee, and unauthorised works are a criminal offence with no immunity period.
The whole building, inside and out, anything fixed to it, and any pre-1948 structure within its curtilage in the same ownership. The listing description is a finding aid, not a schedule — something unmentioned is still protected if it contributes to special interest.
Grade II covers around 92% of listed buildings, Grade II* about 6% and Grade I about 2.5%. The grade affects the weight given to harm, not whether consent is needed.
Extensions that are subordinate, reversible, and clearly of their own time rather than pastiche; work to later unsympathetic additions rather than to original fabric; and schemes that remove a previous poor alteration as part of the proposal. Glazed links, lightweight rear additions and interventions into a twentieth-century wing all fare better than a full-width masonry box.
A heritage statement describing significance proportionately and assessing impact, measured survey drawings of the existing building, detailed proposed drawings — often at 1:5 or 1:10 for junctions with historic fabric — and a schedule of works. The NPPF requires clear and convincing justification for any harm.
Unauthorised works to a listed building are a criminal offence under the 1990 Act with no four- or ten-year immunity. A listed building enforcement notice can require reinstatement decades later, and prosecution can follow on indictment.
Can I extend if my home is listed? in a Bexley context: London Borough of Bexley (Bexley Council) runs 16 conservation areas including the Bexley Village Conservation Area and the Old Bexley Conservation Area, and there is no borough-wide Article 4 direction, so permitted development generally survives outside conservation areas. That decides how can i extend if my home is listed? is handled: £548 and 8 weeks for a Bexley householder application, or £274 for the Lawful Development Certificate that records can i extend if my home is listed? as lawful. The law behind can i extend if my home is listed? sits in the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, the GPDO 2015 and the Building Regulations 2010.
| Consent required for | Works affecting character, inside and out |
|---|---|
| Fee | None |
| Determination period | 8 weeks |
| Grades | I (2.5%), II* (6%), II (92%) |
| Curtilage protection | Pre-1 July 1948, same ownership |
| Immunity period | None |
Yes, wherever it affects special interest — partitions, joinery, fireplaces, staircases.
No, though a parallel planning application may still carry one.
Only with consent, and usually only on a like-for-like basis unless the existing are later replacements.
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