Chapter 2: Development plans etc Chapter 3: Heritage Section 58B Duty of regard to certain heritage assets in granting planning permission or permission in principle
Subsection (1) specifies that a local planning authority or (as the case may be) the Secretary of State must have special regard to the desirability of preserving or enhancing a heritage asset or its setting when considering whether to grant planning permission or permission in principle for the development of land in England.
	Subsection (2) specifies that for the purpose of subsection (1), preserving or enhancing a relevant asset or its setting includes, in particular, preserving or enhancing any feature, quality or characteristics of the asset or setting that contributes to the significance of the asset.
	Subsection (3) inserts a table setting out a list of relevant assets. The table also sets out their significance, in relation to the relevant asset.
	Subsection (4) specifies that the reference in subsection (1) to local planning authorities also includes the Mayor of London in relation to the granting of planning permission by Mayoral development order.
	Subsection (5) specifies that nothing in 58B applies in relation to neighbourhood development orders (except as provided in Schedule 4B).
	Subsection (2) specifies how the duty of regard should be applied to the process for making of neighbourhood development orders and its independent examination. Subsection (2)(a)(i) allows for consideration of preservation or enhancement, rather than just preservation. Subsection (2)(a)(ii) inserts a requirement to have special regard to the desirability of preserving or enhancing anything that is a relevant asset for the purposes of section 58B or its setting, in if it is appropriate to make the order (subparagraph (2)(ca)). Subsection (2)(b) inserts (4A) and (4B) which applies subparagraph (2)(ca) in relation to something that is a relevant asset for the purposes of section 58B only in so far as the order grants planning permission for development that affects that asset or its setting; and subsections (2) and (3)(b) of section 58B apply for the purposes of subparagraphs (2)(ca) and (4A) as they apply for the purposes of that section.
	Subsection (3) amends section 16 of the Listed Building Act to allow for consideration of preservation or enhancement, rather than just preservation, when considering whether to grant listed building consent.
	Subsection (4) amends sections 66 of the Listed Buildings Act to include the Mayor of London within subsection (1) and allow for consideration of preservation or enhancement, rather than just preservation, in subsections (1) and (2).