{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-40.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2011/25",
  "legislation_title": "Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Form and content of applications",
  "text": "(1) Any application for planning permission—\n(a) must be made in such form and in such manner as may be specified by a development order;\n(b) must include such particulars, and be verified by such evidence, as may be required by a development order or by any directions given by a council or the Department under such an order.\n(2) A direction under subsection (1)(b) must not be inconsistent with the development order.\n(3) A development order must require an application for planning permission of such description as is specified in the order to be accompanied by such of the following as is so specified—\n(a) a statement about the design principles and concepts that have been applied to the development;\n(b) a statement about how issues relating to access to the development have been dealt with.\n(4) The form and content of a statement mentioned in subsection (3) is such as is required by the development order.\n(5) Subsection (1) shall apply to applications to a council or the Department for any consent, agreement or approval of the council or, as the case may be, the Department required by a condition imposed on a grant of planning permission as that subsection applies to applications for planning permission.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 3 applied with modification(s) (1.4.2015) by The Planning General Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/39), regs. 1(1), 2 (with regs. 3-10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 40 applied with modification(s) (1.4.2015) by The Planning (Trees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/84), regs. 1(1), 2, Sch. (with reg. 11(7))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 40 applied with modification(s) (1.4.2015) by The Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/66), regs. 1, 8, Sch. 4 Pts. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 40 in operation at 1.2.2015 for specified purposes by S.R. 2015/25, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 40 in operation at 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in operation by S.R. 2015/25, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2011/25/section/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:42.089798+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."
}