Commentary on Sections Part 3 — Buildings of special architectural or historic interest Chapter 1 — Listing buildings of special interest Section 81 — Review of decision to list buildingSection 82 — Supplementary provision about reviewsSchedule 2 — Decision on review by person appointed by the Welsh Ministers
290.Where the Welsh Ministers list a building, section 81 requires them to give any owner or occupier of the building an opportunity to request a review of their listing decision.
291.Subsection (2) provides that the ground for review is that the building is not of special architectural or historic interest. Subsection (6) provides that the Welsh Ministers may make regulations to specify other grounds in the future.
292.Under subsection (3), the Welsh Ministers must appoint a person to carry out the review and make a decision on it. Ordinarily, this will be an inspector of Planning and Environment Decisions Wales. However, subsection (4) provides that the Welsh Ministers may make regulations to specify descriptions of cases that they will review and decide themselves, instead of appointing a person to do so.
293.Section 82 makes administrative and procedural provision for the reviews provided for in section 81. It is supplemented by Schedule 2, which sets out the functions of persons appointed by the Welsh Ministers to carry out reviews. Schedule 2 also applies to reviews of decisions to add monuments to the schedule.