Paragraph 28 Applications made under requirementsI1
England and Wales
Where an application has been made to the relevant authority for any consent, agreement or approval required by a requirement, or for any consent, agreement or approval further to any document referred to in any such requirement, the relevant authority must give notice to the undertaker of its decision on the application within a period of eight weeks beginning with the later of—
the day immediately following that on which the application is received by the relevant authority; or
where further information is requested F1under paragraph 29, the day immediately following that on which the further information has been supplied by the undertaker,
or such longer period that is agreed in writing between the undertaker and the relevant authority.
In determining any application made to the relevant authority for any consent, agreement or approval required by a requirement contained in Part 2 of this Schedule, the relevant authority may—
give or refuse its consent, agreement or approval; or
give its consent, agreement or approval subject to reasonable conditions,
and where consent, agreement or approval is refused or granted subject to conditions the relevant authority must provide its reasons for that decision with the notice of the decision.
In the event the relevant authority does not determine an application within the period set out in sub-paragraph (1), the relevant authority is to be taken to have granted all parts of the application (without any condition or qualification) at the end of that period.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Words in Sch. 1 para. 28(1)(b) substituted (9.10.2025) by The Oaklands Farm Solar Park (Correction) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/1070), art. 1, Sch.
Commencement
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Sch. 1 para. 28 in force at 11.7.2025, see art. 1