{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-2008/section-41",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-2008/section-41.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/29",
  "legislation_title": "Planning Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-2008",
  "path": "section/41",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Chapter applies before application is made",
  "text": "(1) This Chapter applies where a person (“the applicant”) proposes to make an application for an order granting development consent (and “applicants” is to be construed accordingly).\n(2) In the following provisions of this Chapter—\n“the proposed application” means the proposed application mentioned in subsection (1);\n“the land” means the land to which the proposed application relates or any part of that land;\n“the proposed development” means the development for which the proposed application (if made) would seek development consent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 41(1) inserted (24.7.2026) by Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (c. 34), ss. 6(4), 118(1)(c) (with s. 116); S.I. 2026/641, reg. 3(c) (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 41 in force at 1.10.2009 by S.I. 2009/2260, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/29/section/41",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:38.131823+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."
  }
}