63Demolition control within the Period Housing Area

63 Demolition control within the Period Housing Area

63 Demolition control within the Period Housing Area

(1) The consent authority shall not consent to demolition of a building within a Protected Area—Period Housing Area unless it is satisfied that—

(a) the building is not representative of the traditional older building fabric of the area generally, where the building appears to have been built post 1946, or

(b) the demolition is of part of an existing building and the substantive appearance of the existing building, when viewed from a public street, will be retained, or

(c) documentary evidence demonstrates that the existing building, or the part of the building proposed for demolition, is structurally unsound and not economically repairable, or

(d) the building is minor or ancillary to the main building on the site (for example, because it is a carport or garden shed) and its demolition will not adversely affect the character of the main building or its setting when viewed from a public street.

(2) For the purpose of determining whether a building is not economically repairable, the consent authority must consider documentary evidence prepared by a suitably qualified person, demonstrating that the cost of repair would exceed the value of the repaired building.