Land Use Planning and Heritage

Water Fountain in Finsbury Circus, this water fountain is the nicest feature in the Circus. making the place enjoyable to come.

The Crossrail Act 2008 grants deemed planning permission for the works, subject to the approval by the local authority of certain reserved matters of detail. Schedule 7 to the Act defines the planning regime which will apply to the local planning authority affected by works to construct and operate Crossrail. It sets out the items requiring further approval for permanent works and construction arrangements as well as the grounds on which the planning authority can refuse to approve or impose conditions in respect of the requests for approval made.

Given that the planning regime is specific to the Crossrail Act and outwith the more usual regime under the Town & Country Planning Acts a simple Guide to Schedule 7 was produced by Crossrail and distributed to all the relevant planning authorities to assist their planning officers by providing guidance and a single location to find all the necessary information established to process a request for approval under Schedule 7.

Schedule 9 to the Crossrail Act 2008 disapplies the normal listed building control regime for specific buildings and certain works required for the construction and operation of Crossrail. However, in order to secure some local authority oversight to this work Crossrail was required to enter into legal agreements, known as Heritage Deeds, with the relevant local planning authorities and English Heritage (now Historic England) by which it has to submit for approval method statements describing how the works described in Schedule 9 will be carried out. This regime enabled the statutory bodies and consultees as set out in the Deeds to approve the methodology of the works and to assess and oversee the works’ physical impact on the historic fabric, but not to oppose the principle that the work could be carried out.

For buildings listed in table 1 to Schedule 9 to the Act the relevant works were set out as a Works Specification in Schedule 1 Part 1 of each Heritage Deed and Part 2 of each schedule sets out the Method Statement Details which Crossrail was required to submit to local planning authorities for approval. For buildings listed in table 2 of Schedule 9 to the Act the dis-application related only to works for maintaining or restoring the character of the listed buildings – referred to as the mitigation  of the impact of settlement – and no works details were included in the relevant Deeds.

Planning and heritage documents:

Summary Publication date Document Type
Heritage deed for works affecting listed buildings – template

Heritage deed for works affecting listed buildings – template

Topic area: Land Use Planning and Heritage

This template is the form of heritage deed used for works to listed buildings

26/02/2016 Good Practice Document
Heritage deed for settlement mitigation works affecting listed buildings – template

Heritage deed for settlement mitigation works affecting listed buildings – template

Topic area: Land Use Planning and Heritage

This template is the form of heritage deed used for settlement mitigation works affecting listed buildings

26/02/2016 Good Practice Document
Front cover of Guide to Schedule 7

Guide to Schedule 7

Topic area: Land Use Planning and Heritage

The Guide to Schedule 7 was produced by Crossrail and distributed to all the relevant planning authorities to assist their planning officers by providing guidance and a single location to find all the necessary information established to process a request for approval under Schedule 7.

26/02/2016 Good Practice Document
Diagram showing location of Crossrail station tunnels in the area of Haunch of Venison Yard in relation to Bonhams basement development

Third Party Technical Interface Management

Topic area: Civil Engineering

The Elizabeth line traverses some of London’s most dense and evolving metropolitan areas. Safeguarding of the route has played an important part since the identification of a tunnelled route back in the early 1990s, following promoters’ recognition of the need to preserve and protect necessary building space and to...

14/02/2023 Technical Paper
Environmental Assessment of Oversite Developments

Environmental Assessment of Oversite Developments

Topic area: Environmental Management

This paper explains the Crossrail approach to and process for undertaking environmental assessments to accompany planning applications made for Oversite Development (OSD). The legal context for carrying out EIA for Crossrail OSD is explained with reference to Section 14 of the Crossrail Act (2008) and the methodology a...

27/09/2016 Micro-report
Photo of London taxis in newly opened taxi facility at Paddington station

New Taxi Facility on Heritage Structures at Paddington

Topic area: Civil Engineering

As a preliminary part of the Crossrail works at Paddington Station, the existing deck spanning platforms and railway tracks is being transformed from a disused goods depot into a taxi and passenger interchange facility. Paddington Station is a Grade 1 listed heritage structure and all modifications to the existing fabr...

03/11/2014 Technical Paper