{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-planning-changes-to-and-revocation-of-development-consent-orders-regulations-2011/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-planning-changes-to-and-revocation-of-development-consent-orders-regulations-2011/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/2055",
  "legislation_title": "The Infrastructure Planning (Changes to, and Revocation of, Development Consent Orders) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-planning-changes-to-and-revocation-of-development-consent-orders-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Applications – general",
  "text": "(1) The application must be made to the Secretary of State.\n(2) The application must be made in writing and must contain the following—\n(a) the name and address of the applicant;\n(b) the name and address of an agent, if appointed;\n(c) the Secretary of State's reference for the development consent order to which the application relates;\n(d) details of the land and the change being applied for;\n(e) an explanatory memorandum explaining the purpose and effect of the application;\n(f) a statement that the applicant is either—\n(i) the person who applied for the development consent order to which the application relates or their successor in title;\n(ii) a person with an interest in the land to which the development consent order relates; or\n(iii) any other person for whose benefit the development consent order has effect;\n(g) details of the applicant's interest in the land;\n(h) where the applicant is a local planning authority, evidence of the matters specified in paragraph 3(5)(a), (b) and (c) of Schedule 6 to the Act;\n(i) a statement which—\n(i) identifies the extent to which the information submitted with the initial application for an order granting development consent in accordance with regulations 5 and 6 of the Infrastructure Planning (Applications: Prescribed Forms and Procedure) Regulations 2009 is correct and relevant to the application; and\n(ii) where necessary updates the parts of this information that relate to the application;\n(j) any documents and plans considered necessary to support the application;\n(k) a statement as to whether the application involves EIA development;\n(l) a consultation report;\n(m) a statement that the applicant has, in relation to a proposed application that has become an application, complied with regulations 10 to 15;\n(n) unless the Secretary of State specifies otherwise, any plans, drawings or sections provided shall be no larger than A0 size, shall be drawn to an identified scale ... and, in the case of plans, shall show the direction of North;\n(o) where a plan comprises 3 or more separate sheets a key plan must be provided showing the relationship between the different sheets; and\n(p) if requested by the Secretary of State, 3 paper copies of the application and other supporting plans and documents.\n(2A) Subject to paragraph (2B), unless the Secretary of State specifies otherwise any plans, drawings or sections required to be provided under paragraph (2) shall be provided at a scale not smaller than 1:2500.\n(2B) Paragraph (2A) does not apply to a plan or to a sheet of a plan where the matters shown or identified on the plan or sheet are entirely in the UK marine area.\n(3) The applicant shall make available, at the request of the Secretary of State, all responses to the consultation carried out in accordance with regulations 10 to 14.\n(4) In this regulation—\n“consultation report” means a report giving details of—\n(a)what has been done in compliance with regulations 10 to 14 in relation to a proposed application that has become the application,\n(b)any relevant responses, and\n(c)the account taken of any relevant responses; ...\n“relevant response” has the meaning given by regulation 15 ; and\n“UK marine area” has the same meaning as in section 42 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (1.4.2012) by The Localism Act 2011 (Infrastructure Planning) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/635), regs. 1(2), 11(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(2)(n) omitted (14.7.2015) by virtue of The Infrastructure Planning (Changes to, and Revocation of, Development Consent Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/760), regs. 1(1), 5(5)(a) (with reg. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 16(2A)(2B) inserted (14.7.2015) by The Infrastructure Planning (Changes to, and Revocation of, Development Consent Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/760), regs. 1(1), 5(5)(b) (with reg. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 16(4) omitted (14.7.2015) by virtue of The Infrastructure Planning (Changes to, and Revocation of, Development Consent Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/760), regs. 1(1), 5(5)(c)(i) (with reg. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in reg. 16(4) substituted (14.7.2015) by The Infrastructure Planning (Changes to, and Revocation of, Development Consent Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/760), regs. 1(1), 5(5)(c)(ii) (with reg. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(4) inserted (14.7.2015) by The Infrastructure Planning (Changes to, and Revocation of, Development Consent Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/760), regs. 1(1), 5(5)(c)(iii) (with reg. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2009/2264"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2055/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:57:57.291233+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."
}