Explanatory note

These Regulations make changes in consent procedures for the display of local authority advertisements requiring express consent. Such procedures are set out in the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisement) Regulations 1992. Regulation 6 of, and Schedule 3 to the 1992 Regulations give deemed consent for extensive classes of local authority advertisements, and these Regulations apply only where those provisions do not cover the particular advertisement proposal.

Regulation 3 of these Regulations provides that the Secretary of State may call in for decision any express application for consent by an interested planning authority. If the Secretary of State does not call in the application, regulation 4 enables the authority to determine the application itself. In cases where the authority grants itself consent, the Secretary of State has, by virtue of regulation 5, the power to issue a discontinuance notice if such action is necessary to remedy a substantial injury to the amenity of the locality or a danger to members of the public.