Commentary on Sections Part 3 — Buildings of special architectural or historic interest Chapter 1 — Listing buildings of special interest Section 83 — Service of temporary listing noticeSection 84 — Temporary listing in urgent cases
294.Section 83 allows a planning authority to confer temporary listed status on an unlisted building that it considers to be:
295.This section and section 84 provide planning authorities with powers to take prompt action, informed by their local knowledge, to protect historic assets that they consider to be of special architectural or historic interest. It allows works to the building to be regulated while it is under consideration for listing by the Welsh Ministers.
296.Section 83(2) provides for the service of a temporary listing notice by a planning authority. The notice was previously termed a “building preservation notice” in section 3A of the 1990 Listed Buildings Act.
297.Subsections (2) and (3) detail the required recipients and contents of a temporary listing notice. Subsection (3)(a)(ii) establishes that the temporary listing of a building must be accompanied by a request to the Welsh Ministers to consider the building for listing.
298.Once the requisite notice has been served on every owner and occupier of a building, its effect is that the same restrictions and requirements apply to a building under temporary listing as to a building under interim protection (subsection (4)) — see paragraph 280 above.
299.Subsection (6) excludes scheduled monuments and exempt religious buildings (as defined in section 156(1)) from the scope of temporary listing.
300.Section 84 provides that where a planning authority considers it urgent to protect a building through temporary listing, it may give notice of the temporary listing by attaching the notice to, or near to, the building instead of serving it on each owner and occupier.