Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas

Course Description 

Conservation Areas can be created where a local planning authority identifies an area of special architectural or historic interest, which deserves careful management to protect that character. A listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection. There are a number of conservation areas in Oxfordshire and many listed buildings both of which require special attention when considering planning applications. This course will explain what a conservation area and listed building is and how they affect planning applications.

This is an interactive course and offers the opportunity to network with Clerks and Councillors from Councils across Oxfordshire to share best practice and ideas.  

Key areas covered in this course include

•          What is a listed building and how it is designated

•          What is a conservation area and how it is designated

•          How to find conservation areas and listed buildings

•          What the relevant planning policies, law and regulations are

•          The role of residents, property owners and the local authority in conservation

•          What requires planning permission

·       How to consider a planning application for a listed building/in a conservation area

•          Trees in a conservation area

•          What is a Heritage Statement and when it’s needed

Lance Wiggins

Director, Lion Planning 

Over 35 years’ professional planning experience, of which 17 years was spent at local authorities in development control and enforcement. Lance has worked in a number of emerging areas of planning including affordable housing, waste related developments and energy efficiency, together with planning policy work including Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessments and Local Development Documents as well as being heavily involved in neighbourhood planning since its inception.