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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-best-value-performance-indicators-and-performance-standards-england-order-2005/article-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/598",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators and Performance Standards (England) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-best-value-performance-indicators-and-performance-standards-england-order-2005",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Performance standards for major planning applications",
  "text": "(1) The best value authorities specified in paragraph (4) shall, in relation to indicator 2(a) (major applications) in Schedule 13, meet the standard in paragraph (2).\n(2) During the financial year, the authority shall determine 57 percent of major planning applications within a period of thirteen weeks, beginning on the day immediately following the date on which a valid application is received by the authority.\n(3) For the purposes of this article and articles 17 and 18 —\n(a) an application is deemed to be determined on the date on which a decision in request of the application is dispatched to the applicant; and\n(b) a “valid application” means an application that the authority does not consider to be invalid by reason of a failure to comply with the requirements of regulation 3 of Town and Country Planning (Applications) Regulations 1988, article 4 of the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995 or any other statutory requirement.\n(4) The best value authorities specified for the purposes of paragraph (1) are—\nBassetlaw District Council;\nBath & NE Somerset Council;\nBerwick-upon-Tweed Borough Council;\nBlyth Valley Borough Council;\nBradford Metropolitan District Council;\nBurnley Borough Council;\nCambridge City Council;\nLondon Borough of Camden;\nChesterfield Borough Council;\nColchester Borough Council;\nCotswold District Council;\nDerby City Council;\nDerwentside District Council;\nDoncaster Metropolitan Borough Council;\nDudley Metropolitan Borough Council;\nEast Hertfordshire District Council;\nEast Northamptonshire District Council;\nEast Staffordshire Borough Council;\nEllesmere Port and Neston Borough Council;\nFenland District Council;\nHarrogate Borough Council;\nLondon Borough of Havering;\nHertsmere Borough Council;\nKirklees Metropolitan Council;\nLuton Borough Council;\nMaldon District Council;\nMelton Borough Council;\nMid Devon District Council;\nMid Suffolk District Council;\nNorth Dorset District Council;\nNorthampton Borough Council;\nNuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council;\nOxford City Council;\nPeterborough City Council;\nPlymouth City Council;\nPreston City Council;\nRedditch Borough Council;\nRugby Borough Council;\nScarborough Borough Council;\nSelby District Council;\nSlough Borough Council;\nSouth Cambridgeshire District Council;\nSouth Gloucestershire Council;\nSouth Oxfordshire District Council;\nSouth Somerset District Council;\nSouthampton City Council;\nLondon Borough of Southwark;\nStevenage borough Council;\nStroud District Council;\nSuffolk Coastal District Council;\nLondon Borough of Sutton;\nTest Valley Borough Council;\nTorridge District Council;\nTrafford Metropolitan Borough Council;\nUttlesford District Council;\nWalsall Metropolitan Borough Council;\nLondon Borough of Wandsworth;\nWaverley Borough Council;\nWealden District Council;\nWelwyn Hatfield District Council;\nWest Berkshire Council;\nWinchester City Council;\nThe Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead;\nWokingham District Council;\nWychavon District Council;\nCity of York.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/1812; regulation 3 was amended in relation to England by S.I 2003/956."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1195/419; article 4 was amended in relation to England by S.I. 2003/956."
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "affecting": "uksi/2007/585",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators and Performance Standards (England) (Amendment) Order 2007"
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      "affecting": "uksi/2006/553",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators and Performance Standards (Amendment) (England) Order 2006"
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      "affecting": "uksi/2006/553",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators and Performance Standards (Amendment) (England) Order 2006"
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/598/article/16",
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  "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."
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