Commentary on Sections Part 4 — Conservation Areas Section 163 — Application of Part 3 to conservation areas
618.Section 163 applies, with necessary modifications, provisions from Part 3 that relate to the control of works, enforcement and associated matters for listed buildings to buildings for which conservation area consent is required for demolition under section 161.
619.The listed building provisions that section 163 applies to conservation areas are from the following Chapters in Part 3: Chapter 2 (control of works), Chapter 4 (enforcement) and Chapter 6 (general — specifically, some of that Chapter’s provisions about powers of entry).
620.Section 163(1) specifies which of those Chapters’ provisions are, and are not, applied. Section 163(2) specifies how the applied provisions are to be read in the conservation areas context. The modifications in section 163(2)(a) are general and the modifications in section 163(2)(b), (c) and (d) are specific to particular provisions.
621.Two instances of the general modifications are:
622.The following example shows how one section from Part 3 (section 117) is to be read in the conservation areas context as a result of section 163(1) and (2).