Local Requirements - Heritage Statement (Listed Building Consent)

Types of application or development that require this information

• Planning applications affecting a Conservation Area or its setting
• Planning applications affecting a listed building, its curtilage or setting
• Planning applications that affect the significance of any heritage asset, including its setting.
• Applications for Listed Building Consent

What information is required?

All proposals that have the potential to impact directly on a listed building or a building within its curtilage that pre dates 1948 will require Listed Building Consent.

For applications for listed building consent, it is a statutory requirement to provide both a Heritage Statement and a Design and Access Statement. It is recommended that these are combined into a single, comprehensive design document, unless the works relate to a major development proposal. The combined statement should address both requirements and make this clear in the title of the document.

The purpose of the Heritage Statement is to describe the significance of any heritage assets affected, including any contribution made by their setting. The level of detail should be proportionate to the assets’ importance and the scope of the proposed works. Sufficient detail must be provided to demonstrate an understanding of the history, character, significance and setting of the heritage asset. As a minimum the relevant historic environment record should have been consulted and the heritage assets assessed using appropriate expertise, where necessary.

The Heritage Statement must include the following:

1. A description of the heritage asset and its setting,
2. An assessment of the heritage assets significance (interior and exterior as relevant),
3. A clear and full explanation of how tan understanding of the heritage asset and its setting has informed the design proposals,
4. An assessment of the impact of the proposals, and
5. A statement of justification for the works together with details of any mitigation measures proposed.

Further information

• Historic England planning advice – Good Practice Advice notes (GPAs) and Historic England Advice Notes (HEANs)
• Historic England - Map Search
• Historic England  - Conservation Principles, Policies and Guidance
• Conservation Areas in the Bradford District
• Descriptions of Listed Buildings in the Bradford District
• Shopfront Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document

Policy driver

• Planning (Listed Buildings & Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• National Planning Policy Framework - Chapter 16: Conserving and enhancing the historic environment
• Core Strategy - Policy EN3: Historic Environment;