High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Act 2021

Interpretation

9 (1) In this Schedule—

• “building” and “listed building” have the same meaning as in the Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas Act;

• “decontrolled works” means works to which section 7 of the Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas Act would apply, but for paragraph 1(2)(a) or 2(2)(a) of this Schedule;

• “the Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas Act” means the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.

(2) For the purposes of this Schedule, works relating to a building are carried out for heritage or monitoring purposes if the works are carried out for the purpose of—

(a) maintaining or restoring the building’s character as a building of special architectural or historical interest, or

(b) affixing apparatus to any part of the building with a view to measuring any movement in the building or the ground on which it is erected in consequence of the carrying out of works in exercise of the powers under this Act.

(3) For the purposes of this Schedule, works relating to a building are carried out for noise mitigation purposes if the works are carried out in exercise of the power in paragraph 9 of Schedule 2.

(4) Anything which, by virtue of section 1(5) of the Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas Act (objects or structures fixed to, or within curtilage of, a building), is treated as part of a building for the purposes of that Act is to be treated as part of the building for the purposes of this Schedule.