Article 3 Application for and issue of certificates

An application to a local planning authority for a certificate under section 17 of the Act of 1961 shall be in writing and shall (as well as complying with the requirements of section 17(3)) include a plan or map sufficient to identify the land to which the application relates.

The time within which a certificate is to be issued by a local planning authority shall, subject to the provisions of section 17(4), be two months of the receipt of such an application by them.

If a local planning authority issue a certificate otherwise than for the class or classes of development specified in the application made to them, or contrary to representations in writing made to them by a party directly concerned, they shall in that certificate include a statement in writing of their reasons for so doing and give particulars of the manner in which and the time within which an appeal may be made to the Secretary of State under section 18 and this order.

The county planning authority shall send a copy of every certificate issued by them to the council of every district in which any part of the land to which the certificate relates is situated and a district planning authority shall, if the certificate issued by them specifies a class or classes of development relating to a county matter, send a copy of that certificate to the county planning authority, and where any part of the land is situated within Greater London the council of a London borough or the Common Council of the City of London, as the case may be, shall, where the certificate issued by them specifies a class or classes of development for which a planning application would fall to be dealt with by the Greater London Council, send a copy of that certificate to that authority.