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Listed building consent in London: what actually needs it
How Listed Building Consent works in every London borough, when you need it, and how to get a sensitive design approved.
How Listed Building Consent works in every London borough, when you need it, and how to get a sensitive design approved.
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Listed building consent is a separate consent from planning permission, it is needed for internal work as well as external, and carrying it out without consent is a criminal offence rather than a planning breach.
| Measure | London | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Listed-works certificates, all boroughs | 114 | over the period covered here |
| Boroughs with a register published | 15 of 33 | a missing register means unpublished, not undesignated |
| Listed buildings mapped | 14,769 | live entries only, revoked designations excluded |
Only 15 of the 33 boroughs have published a listed-building layer to the national register. That is a gap in the register, not in the designations: a borough returning nothing still has listed buildings, and Historic England's list remains the authoritative source for any single address.
Listed building consent is separate from planning permission and is required for internal alterations as well as external ones. Carrying out work to a listed building without consent is a criminal offence, not a planning breach, which is why the certificate route above exists at all.
Sources: MHCLG District Planning Application Statistics (PS1/PS2) and the MHCLG Planning Data Platform registers, covering 2023 Q2 to 2026 Q1. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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