{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016-commencement-no-5-transitional-provisions-and-savings-regulations-2017/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/281",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing and Planning Act 2016 (Commencement No. 5, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016-commencement-no-5-transitional-provisions-and-savings-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Transitional provison: development consent for projects that involve housing",
  "text": "(1) The amendments made by section 160 of the Act (which are brought into force by regulation 4(i)) do not apply to a pre-commencement application.\n(2) In this regulation “pre-commencement application” means an application made before 6th April 2017—\n(a) under section 37 of the Planning Act 2008 (applications for orders granting development consent), or\n(b) under Schedule 6 to the Planning Act 2008 (changes to, and revocation of, orders granting development consent).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2008 c. 29. Section 37 was amended by the Localism Act 2011."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Schedule 6 was amended by the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009, the Localism Act 2011, the Infrastructure Act 2015, S.I. 2009/1307 and S.I. 2011/1043."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/281/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:13:59.323019+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."
}