Listed Buildings: Defibrillators
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what consideration he has given to exempting externally mounted defibrillators from planning and listed buildings regulations.
Answered by Matthew Pennycook
In most cases, installing a defibrillator will not require planning permission.
Listed building consent may be required where installation affects a listed building’s special historic or architectural character.
My Department has made no specific assessment of exempting externally mounted defibrillators from the listed buildings regulations.
Local planning authorities have powers, through local listed building consent orders, to grant a general listed building consent for works to listed buildings in their areas where they consider appropriate.
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