C O N T E X T 1 3 0 : J U LY 2 0 1 3 13 as any consultation and wider publicity that must take place before the agreements are entered into or subsequently varied. These statutory agreements will undoubtedly be of great use to local planning authorities and a number of public sector and other organisations with large landholdings that include listed buildings on which regular repair and maintenance is carried out. The intention is to cut down significantly the number of applications for individual listed building consent required for routine works by trusted bodies, as well as providing a statutory backing to agreements relating to continuing maintenance and access. The Act places on a statutory footing the voluntary heritage management agreements previously piloted between English Heritage and a number of national heritage bodies (including the Canal and River Trust) in respect of certain large listed buildings which require regular, continuing repair and maintenance. Listed building consent orders The new section 26C of the 1990 Act enables the secretary of state to make an order granting listed building consent for certain classes of works to listed buildings of any description in England, subject to specified conditions.These consent orders would operate in the same ways as permitted development rights under the planning regime or class consents under the scheduled monument regime, and remove the need for an individual application for listed building consent for those works covered in the order. A consent order may give the local planning authority an opportunity, in specified cases, to require details of works covered by the consent order to be approved by them. Therefore, a consent order may grant unconditional listed building consent for some works, while making the detail of other works subject to prior approval of the local planning authority. This prior approval would, presumably, relate not to the principle of whether the works should be carried out (otherwise the works would not be included in the consent order and would require full listed building consent) but rather to the details of the work, akin to the type of approval given by local planning authorities under some classes of permitted development rights (such as for the erection of telecoms apparatus). Equivalent powers are given to local planning authorities to make ‘local listed building consent orders’ in 1930s art deco detailing in the Scott Foyer of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon. A heritage partnership agreement is being developed for the building. (Photo: Les Greenwood) The Royal Shakespeare Theatre from the south (Photo: Les Greenwood)
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