{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/beacon-fen-energy-park-order-2026/schedule-2/paragraph-24",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/1025",
  "legislation_title": "The Beacon Fen Energy Park Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/beacon-fen-energy-park-order-2026",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/24",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Applications made under requirement",
  "text": "(1) Where an application has been made to the relevant planning authority for any discharge, the relevant planning authority must give notice to the undertaker of its decision on the application within a period of ten weeks beginning with the later of—\n(a) the day immediately following that on which the application is received by the authority;\n(b) the day immediately following that on which further information has been supplied by the undertaker under paragraph 76; or\n(c) such longer period that is agreed in writing by the undertaker and the relevant planning authority.\n(2) Subject to paragraph 77, in the event that the relevant planning authority does not determine an application within the period set out in sub-paragraph (1), the relevant planning authority is to be taken to have granted all parts of the application (without any condition or qualification) at the end of that period.\n(3) Any application for consent or approval under sub-paragraph (1) must include a statement that the provisions of sub-paragraph (2) apply to that application.\n(4) If an application for consent under sub-paragraph (1) does not include the statement required under sub-paragraph (3), the provisions of sub-paragraph (2) will not apply to that application.\n(5) Any application made to the relevant planning authority pursuant to sub-paragraph (1) must—\n(a) include a statement to confirm whether it is likely that the subject matter of the application will give rise to any materially new or materially different environmental effects compared to those in the environmental statement and if it will then it must be accompanied by information setting out what those effects are; and\n(b) include confirmation that the application has been notified and provided to the requirement consultees in accordance with sub-paragraph (7), if the provision governing or requiring the application specifies that consultation with a requirement consultee is required (such confirmation to include contact details for the requirement consultees).\n(6) Where an application has been made to the relevant planning authority for any discharge and the relevant planning authority does not determine the application within the period set out in sub-paragraph (1) and the application is accompanied by a report pursuant to sub-paragraph (5)(a) which states that the subject matter of such application is likely to give rise to any materially new or materially different environmental effects compared to those in the environmental statement then the application is to be taken to have been refused by the relevant planning authority at the end of that period.\n(7) Where an application has been made to the relevant planning authority for any discharge, the undertaker will also submit a copy of that application to any requirement consultee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1025/schedule/2/paragraph/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:54:55.261956+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}