{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-2008/section-87",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-2008/section-87.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/29",
  "legislation_title": "Planning Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-2008",
  "path": "section/87",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "87",
  "heading": "Examining authority to control examination of application",
  "text": "(1) It is for the Examining authority to decide how to examine the application.\n(2) The Examining authority, in making any decision about how the application is to be examined, must—\n(a) comply with—\n(i) the following provisions of this Chapter, and\n(ii) any rules made under section 97, and\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) The Examining authority may in examining the application disregard representations if the Examining authority considers that the representations—\n(a) are vexatious or frivolous,\n(b) relate to the merits of policy set out in a national policy statement, or\n(c) relate to compensation for compulsory acquisition of land or of an interest in or right over land.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 87(2)(b) repealed (1.4.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(2), Sch. 13 para. 38, Sch. 25 Pt. 20; S.I. 2012/628, art. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 87 in force at 1.3.2010 by S.I. 2010/101, art. 3(d) (with art. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/29/section/87",
    "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."
  }
}