{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-general-regulations-2012/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-general-regulations-2012/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/637",
  "legislation_title": "The Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-general-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Application for designation of a neighbourhood area",
  "text": "(1) Where a relevant body submits an area application to the local planning authority it must include—\n(a) a map which identifies the area to which the area application relates;\n(b) a statement explaining why this area is considered appropriate to be designated as a neighbourhood area; and\n(c) a statement that the organisation or body making the area application is a relevant body for the purposes of section 61G of the 1990 Act.\n(2) A local planning authority may decline to consider an area application if the relevant body has already made an area application and a decision has not yet been made on that application.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "For the definition of “relevant body” see section 61G(2) of the 1990 Act (inserted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 9 to the Localism Act 2011 (c.20)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/637/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:38:49.246512+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."
}