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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-listed-buildings-and-conservation-areas-act-1990/schedule-4/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/9",
  "legislation_title": "Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-listed-buildings-and-conservation-areas-act-1990",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to sections . . ., 6, 7, , 7ZA, 7A, 8 and 8A of the principal Act, the functions of a local planning authority under sections 67(2) and (3), 69, 70 and 74 and paragraph 2(3) and (4) of Schedule 1 shall be exercisable—\n(a) in Greater London or a metropolitan county or in any National Park for which a National Park authority is the local planning authority, by the local planning authority;\n(b) in any part of a National Park to which paragraph (a) above does not apply, by the county planning authority; and\n(c) elsewhere, by the district planning authority;\nbut outside a National Park a county planning authority shall also have power to make determinations and designations under section 69.\n(2) Before making a determination under section 69 a county planning authority or National Park authority shall consult the council of each district of which any part is included in the area to which the proposed determination relates.\n(3) Where it is the duty of the district planning authority to take the steps required by section 67(2) in relation to an application which falls to be determined by the county planning authority, the district planning authority shall as soon as possible after taking those steps notify the county planning authority of the steps which they have taken and the date on which they took them.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 4(1) repealed (1.4.1997) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(3), Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/2560, art. 2 Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 4(1) inserted (14.4.2026) by Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), s. 255(7), Sch. 17 para. 3(b) (with s. 247); S.I. 2026/168, reg. 2(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 4 substituted (10.11.1993) by 1993 c. 28, s. 187(1), Sch. 21 para. 31; S.I. 1993/2762, art. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 4(1)(a) inserted (1.4.1997) by 1995 c. 25, s. 78, Sch. 10 para. 33(8)(a)(i) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117, Sch. 8 para. 7); S.I. 1996/2560, art. 2 Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 4(1)(b) substituted (1.4.1997) by 1995 c. 25, s. 78, Sch. 10 para. 33(8)(a)(ii) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117, Sch. 8 para. 7); S.I. 1996/2560, art. 2 Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 4(2) inserted (1.4.1997) by 1995 c. 25, s. 78, Sch. 10 para. 33(8)(b) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117, Sch. 8 para. 7); S.I. 1996/2560, art. 2 Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 4 extended (1.11.1993) by 1993 c. 28, s. 70(14)(b); S.I. 1993/2134, art. 5(a)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 paras. 2, 4(1) modified by S.I. 1990/1519, reg. 13(1)"
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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