§ BUILDING PRESERVATION NOTICE IN RESPECT OF BUILDING NOT LISTED
§ 3.7 a.m.
§ The Lord Advocate (Mr. Norman Wylie)I beg to move Amendment No. 1, in page 56, line 11, at end insert:
'(6) If it appears to the local planning authority to be urgent that a building preservation notice should come into force, they may, instead of serving the notice on the owner, lessee and occupier of the building to which it relates, affix the notice conspicuously to some object on the building; and this shall be treated for all the purposes of this section and of Schedule 10 to this Act as service of the said notice, in relation to which subsection (1)(b) of this section shall be taken to include a reference to this subsection'.This Amendment, with which it may be for the convenience of the Committee to
§ Question put, That Standing Order 205 (Notice of Third Reading) be suspended: —
§ The House divided: Ayes 18, Noes 0.
§ take Amendment No. 3, is the consequence of the inclusion in the Town and Country Planning (Amendment) Bill of a new Clause—Clause 7—which during the Report stage of that Bill was new Clause 10. That new Clause, which has now been approved in another place, added a new subsection (6) to Section 48 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1969. The Section is to be found translated in this consolidation Measure by Clause 56 of the Bill.
§ If I may briefly remind hon. Members what Clause 56 does, re-enacting Section 48 of the 1969 Act, it provides that if it appears to a local planning authority in the case of a building which is not listed as a listed building that it is of special architectural or historical interest and is in danger of demolition or alteration in such a way as to affect the character of the building, the authority may serve on the owner, lessee and occupier of the building a notice known as a building preservation notice.
§ Amendment No. 1 merely provides that in a situation of urgency, instead of serving a notice on the owner, lessee and occupier of the building, it will be sufficient to affix a notice conspicuously to one part of the building. That is the essential feature of the Amendment. It is consequential upon the inclusion of the new Clause in the Bill which only recently passed through this House. Amendment No. 3 is consequential upon that.
§ Amendment agreed to.
1775§ Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.
§ Clauses 57 to 281 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
§ Schedules 1 to 20 agreed to.