Paragraph 3

In regulation 3 (application), after paragraph (2 ) insert—

“(2A)

Where an appellant (or, as the case may be, the appellant and the local planning authority) so informs the Secretary of State using electronic communications, the appellant shall be taken to have agreed—

(a)

to the use of such communications for all purposes of these Regulations relating to his appeal which are capable of being carried out electronically;

(b)

that his address for the purpose of such communications is the address incorporated into, or otherwise logically associated with, his communication so informing the Secretary of State; and

(c)

that his deemed agreement under this paragraph shall subsist until he gives notice in accordance with regulation 10A that he wishes to revoke the agreement;

and the references in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this regulation to an appeal being disposed of on the basis of written representations shall not be taken to preclude the use of electronic communications in accordance with this paragraph and regulation 2.”.