Locally Listed Buildings.
Buildings a council has identified as locally significant without national listing. They carry no separate consent regime, but their significance is a material consideration and demolition is routinely resisted.
- Repair and sympathetic alteration
- Rear extensions retaining the principal elevation
- Conversion retaining significant fabric
- Changes to the front elevation
- Roof alterations visible from the street
- Replacement windows on a principal frontage
- Demolition without a clear justification
- Schemes treating the building as a blank site
A locally listed building is a non-designated heritage asset. Where an application directly or indirectly affects one, a balanced judgement is required having regard to the scale of harm or loss and the significance of the asset.
There is no listed building consent requirement and no automatic removal of permitted development rights. What changes is the weight: harm has to be justified, and total loss needs a stronger case than a comparable unlisted building.
Retention plus a well-designed addition is a far shorter route than demolition and replacement. Where a scheme depends on clearing the building, expect the case to turn on a structural and viability evidence base rather than on design.
How schemes actually fare inside this designation — approval rates, appeal survival, which authorities apply it hardest — needs the designation joined to the decision record. That join isn’t built, so those figures aren’t published here. We won’t estimate them.
Check the local list as well as the statutory one — it is easy to miss and it changes the demolition case. Note that local lists are published council by council and most have not been submitted to the national dataset, so a blank map here means not published nationally, not that a borough keeps no list.