Policy information sourced from Hackney Local Plan 2033

LP3 Designated Heritage Assets

Development that leads to substantial harm to or total loss of significance of a designated heritage asset will not be permitted unless it can be demonstrated that the substantial harm or loss is necessary to achieve substantial public benefits that outweigh that harm or loss, or all of the following apply:

  1. the nature of the heritage asset prevents all reasonable uses of the site; and
  2. no viable use of the heritage asset itself can be found in the medium term through appropriate marketing that will enable its conservation; and
  3. conservation by grant-funding or some form of charitable or public ownership is demonstrably not possible; and
  4. the harm or loss is outweighed by the benefit of bringing the site back into use.

Development that leads to less than substantial harm to significance of a designated heritage asset will not be permitted unless the public benefit of the proposal, including securing the optimum viable use of the site, outweigh the harm.

For more information please see the Hackney Local Plan 2033