{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/localism-act-2011/section-137",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/localism-act-2011/section-137.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2011/20",
  "legislation_title": "Localism Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/localism-act-2011",
  "path": "section/137",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "137",
  "heading": "Acceptance of applications for development consent",
  "text": "(1) The Planning Act 2008 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 55(3) (conditions for acceptance of application) omit paragraphs (b) and (d) (application may be accepted only if it complies with requirements as to form and contents and with any standards set, and gives reasons for any failure to follow applicable guidance).\n(3) In section 55(3) after paragraph (e) insert\n, and\n(f) that the application (including accompaniments) is of a standard that the Secretary of State considers satisfactory.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) In section 37(3) (requirements as to form and contents of application) after “must” insert “ , so far as necessary to secure that the application (including accompaniments) is of a standard that the Secretary of State considers satisfactory ”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 137(4) omitted (24.7.2026) by virtue of Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (c. 34), ss. 7(9), 118(1)(c) (with s. 116); S.I. 2026/641, reg. 3(d) (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 137 in force at 1.4.2012 by S.I. 2012/628, art. 7(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/20/section/137",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:03:11.003851+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}