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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-control-of-advertisements-regulations-1989/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/670",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-control-of-advertisements-regulations-1989",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations consolidate with amendments the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 1984 and subsequent amending instruments.\nThe main provisions of the Regulations, which apply in England and Wales, concern the control by local planning authorities of the display of outdoor advertisements. Specified classes of advertisements are excluded from the Regulations and others may be displayed with deemed consent, subject to conditions and limitations and the power of local planning authorities to serve discontinuance notices (Part II). Applications to the local planning authority for express consent and the granting of consent subject to conditions are provided for, as are appeals to the Secretary of State where consent is refused or granted conditionally, and the revocation or modification of express consent (Part III). Part IV deals with the designation of areas of special control and Parts I and V with general and miscellaneous provisions.\nThe main changes made by the Regulations are–\n(a) modification of the powers of the Secretary of State in directing that, in a specified case or class of case, advertisements should not be displayed without express consent (regulation 7);\n(b) revision of the criteria on which a local planning authority may serve a discontinuance notice withdrawing deemed consent under Schedule 3 (regulation 8);\n(c) clarification of the powers of a local planning authority to grant consent for part only of an application, with or without conditions (regulation 13);\n(d) the introduction of two new classes of illuminated advertisement with deemed consent (Classes 4A and 4B in Schedule 3);\n(e) other minor modifications to the Classes of advertisement with deemed consent (regulation 6 and Schedule 3);\n(f) introduction of a power for an objection to an area of special control order to be dealt with by written representations, instead of a hearing, if the parties agree (Schedule 5, paragraph 5).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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