Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023
What this means for your business
- Applies to
- United Kingdom
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- 8 compliance obligations, 4 practical guides
What you must do
8 compliance obligations under this legislation — 2 can result in imprisonment.
Management duties 1
Meet conditions to obtain local‑authority consent for letting premises
If you want to let a property while an initial notice is in force, you must ensure the new tenancy or licence starts within eight weeks of that notice, lasts at least one year (without a landlord right to end it early), and is for a high‑street use. Only then will the local authority be obliged to give consent.
Offences and prohibitions 7
Carry out works without consent during final letting notice
Fine up to £2,500If you are a landlord and a final letting notice is in force for a property, you must not carry out any alterations, removals or other works without written consent from the local authority that issued the notice. Doing works without that consent (except for urgent repairs or obligations that existed before the notice) is a criminal offence. On conviction in the magistrates’ court you can be fined up to £2,500.
Fail to comply with a temporary stop notice on a listed building
Unlimited fineIf you carry out, allow or facilitate works on a listed building after a local planning authority has served or displayed a temporary stop notice, you commit an offence. The notice will have been issued because the works breach listed‑building protections. On conviction you face an unlimited fine; there is no custodial sentence.
Fail to meet or give false information for a section 219 requirement
2 years imprisonmentIf your business does not comply with a requirement imposed under section 219 of the Levelling‑up and Regeneration Act 2023, or you supply information that is false or misleading knowing it is so, you commit a criminal offence. Conviction can lead to an unlimited fine and, on the more serious offence, up to two years’ imprisonment. The case may be tried in a magistrates’ court or, for the more serious breach, in the Crown Court.
Fail to provide information after a commencement‑notice enquiry
Fine up to £1,000If a local planning authority serves you with a notice asking for information about a development commencement notice, you must supply the requested details within 21 days. Failure to do so is a criminal offence. On conviction you face a fine of up to £1,000, dealt with in the magistrates' court.
Fail to provide required premises information
Fine up to £2,500If a local authority writes to you asking for details about a premises on a designated high street or town centre – such as who occupies it, who has an interest in it and any matters affecting it – you must supply the information by the deadline and in the way specified. Failing to do so, or sending information you know (or should know) is false, is a criminal offence. On conviction you face a fine of up to £2,500, dealt with in the magistrates' court.
Make false or misleading statement to planning authority
Unlimited fineIf you apply for planning permission and the authority serves a notice asking for information, you must provide truthful information. Giving a statement you know is false, or are reckless about its truth, is a criminal offence. On conviction in the magistrates' court you face an unlimited fine.
Obstruct land surveyors or misuse confidential information
2 years imprisonmentIf you deliberately block an officer who is exercising their power to enter and survey land under the Levelling‑up and Regeneration Act, or if you reveal confidential information (such as trade secrets) you obtained during that survey for any other purpose, you commit a criminal offence. On conviction you could face an unlimited fine and, for the disclosure offence, up to two years’ imprisonment. The offence can be tried in either the Magistrates' Court or the Crown Court, depending on how it is prosecuted.
Penalties for non-compliance
7 penalties under this legislation. 2 can result in imprisonment. 4 carry an unlimited fine.
Fail to meet or give false information for a section 219 requirement
Unlimited fine and/or 2 years imprisonment
Obstruct land surveyors or misuse confidential information
Unlimited fine and/or 2 years imprisonment
Fail to comply with a temporary stop notice on a listed building
Unlimited fine
Make false or misleading statement to planning authority
Unlimited fine
Carry out works without consent during final letting notice
Fine up to £2,500
Fail to provide required premises information
Fine up to £2,500
Fail to provide information after a commencement‑notice enquiry
Fine up to £1,000
Practical guidance
Our guides explain how to comply with the requirements above.
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Sections and provisions
280 classified provisions from this legislation.
Duties 15
- s.2 Statement of levelling-up missions: devolution
- s.3 Annual etc reports on delivery of levelling-up missions
- s.4 Reports: Parliamentary scrutiny and publication
- s.6 Reviews of statements of levelling-up missions changes
- s.7 Levelling Up Fund Round 3
- s.29 Deputy mayors etc
- s.37 Section 34 regulations: exercise of fire and rescue functions
- s.94 National development management policies: meaning the Secretary of State
- s.143 Application of CLA receipts
- s.144 Duty to pass CLA receipts to other persons CLA receipts passed
- s.148 Parliamentary scrutiny of pilot
- s.163 Guidance
- s.197 Circumstances in which letting to be permitted
- s.203 Rental auctions
- s.228 Registration of short-term rental properties
Offences and penalties 8
- s.103 Temporary stop notices in relation to listed buildings
- s.111 Development commencement notices
- s.113 Power to decline to determine applications in cases of earlier non-implementation etc
- s.160 Enforcement
- s.200 Restriction on works while final notice in force
- s.210 Power to require provision of information
- s.212 Offences in connection with section 211
- s.225 Offences
Powers 85
- Schedule 1 Combined county authorities: overview and scrutiny committees and audit committee
- Schedule 3 Mayors for combined county authority Areas: PCC functions
- s.5 Changes to mission progress methodology and metrics or target dates
- s.9 Combined county authorities and their areas
- s.11 Non-constituent members of a CCA
- s.12 Associate members of a CCA
- s.13 Regulations about members
- s.16 Funding
- s.17 Change of name
- s.18 Local authority functions
- s.19 Other public authority functions
- s.20 Section 19 regulations: procedure
- s.21 Integrated Transport Authority and Passenger Transport Executive
- s.22 Directions relating to highways and traffic functions
- s.23 Contravention of regulations under section 22
- Schedule 24 Regulations under Chapter 1 of Part 3 or Part 6: form and scrutiny
- s.24 Designation of key route network roads
- s.26 Dissolution of a CCA’s area
- s.27 Power to provide for election of mayor
- s.28 Requirements in connection with regulations under section 27
- ... and 65 more powers
Definitions 25
- Schedule 2 Mayors for combined county authority areas: further provisions about elections qualifying citizen relevant day relevant order
- s.8 Interpretation of Part 1 devolved authorities devolved legislatures geographical disparities
- Schedule 13 Regulations under Chapter 1 of Part 3 or Part 6: restrictions on devolved authorities Northern Ireland devolved authority subordinate legislation
- Schedule 20 Grounds of appeal against final letting notice company subsidiary
- s.42 Alternative mayoral titles
- s.57 Interpretation of Chapter fire and rescue authority nominating body associate member
- s.81 Alteration of street names: England local authority regulations specified
- s.91 Interpretation of Chapter appropriate authority devolved authority public authority
- s.102 Regard to certain heritage assets in exercise of planning functions
- s.151 Interpretation of Part 5 local planning authority CLA option CLA receipts
- s.154 Power to define “relevant consent” and “relevant plan” etc Relevant plan Consent Project
- s.167 Interpretation of Part 6 Existing environmental assessment legislation Relevant existing environmental assessment legislation appropriate authority
- s.191 Designated high streets and town centres designated high street designated town centre
- s.192 High-street uses and premises
- s.201 Counter-notice
- s.217 Power to modify or disapply enactments applicable to letting
- s.218 Interpretation of Part 10 Premises Street Short-term tenancy
- s.220 The beneficial ownership purpose the Money Laundering Regulations
- s.222 The national security purpose
- s.223 Requirements may include transactional information Transactional information
- ... and 5 more definitions
Exemptions 22
- s.10 Constitutional arrangements
- s.25 Changes to boundaries of a CCA’s area
- s.48 Requirements for changes to existing arrangements relating to CCA
- s.49 General power of CCA
- s.50 Boundaries of power under section 49
- s.51 Power to make provision supplemental to section 49
- s.73 Power to transfer etc public authority functions to certain local authorities
- s.82 Powers of parish councils
- s.85 Power in relation to the provision of planning data
- s.88 Disclosure of planning data does not infringe copyright in certain cases
- s.118 Restriction on appeals against enforcement notices
- s.131 Power for appointees to vary determinations as to procedure
- s.153 Environmental outcomes reports for relevant consents and relevant plans
- s.190 Power to require prospects of planning permission to be ignored
- s.196 Restriction on letting while initial notice in force
- s.199 Restriction on letting while final notice in force
- s.206 Terms of tenancy
- s.208 Deemed consent of superior lessor or mortgagee
- s.235 Transfer of land by local authorities
- s.247 Crown application
- ... and 2 more exemptions