News Royal consent
Efforts to repair Windsor Castle have run into trouble over the past few months, as works to an external staircase were halted by the local council. Most readers would probably assume that the Queen wouldn’t struggle to gain consents to maintain her various listed properties, but it seems this isn’t necessarily the case.
The works were to the Hundred Steps, which run up to the castle walls from the neighbouring cloisters, focusing on repairs to the wall running along one edge of the steps. The work involved repairing brickwork, replacing unsalvageable materials and repointing. As part of the curtilage of a listed building, the work required listed building consent, which was sought before the work started. However, the work also required planning permission. Listed buildings are held to very strict standards for planning permission.
Non-listed homes have a lot of special exemptions to repair, extend and build ancillary structures around them, but listed buildings do not. By the letter of
Listed Property Show
The arrival of a new year means that the Listed Property Show at Olympia in London is just around the corner, on the 8th and 9th of February. This will be our 14th year holding the show, which features our expert conservation advisers, talks about maintaining your home and a wide selection of specialist tradespeople and professionals. This year we are once again pleased to have Historic England represented at the show.
Members should have received their tickets with this issue, and additional tickets can be purchased from
www.lpoc.co.uk or by calling the office on 01795 844 939.
6 Listed Heritage Magazine January/February 2020 Owners’ Forums with MPs
The Club will be restarting our Listed Property Owners’ Forums around the UK in 2020 and inviting local members to come and meet with their MP, councillors or planning officials. These are a really valuable way for owners to speak up about their specific local challenges, and to get their representatives involved in our campaign.
We will be announcing dates and locations in the coming months, but we are looking to take our forums to areas like the north of England, as well as Wales and Scotland, where owners typically have not the opportunity to speak up.
the law, planning permission is needed for any alterations to any means of enclosure, such as a wall, in addition to listed building consent.
Although Windsor Castle isn’t a typical listed building, this case does show the kind of problems that owners can run afoul of. The need to seek planning permission to repoint a garden wall just
because the property is listed is a genuine oversight in the law and creates a pitfall that even the Royal Household can stumble into.
It seems likely that the Queen will be able to clean up the planning problems quickly with a retrospective application, but many owners have faced similar struggles.
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