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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-crown-development-applications-hearings-and-inquiries-rules-2025/rule-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/410",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Crown Development Applications) (Hearings and Inquiries) Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-crown-development-applications-hearings-and-inquiries-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules—\n“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;\n“the 2025 Order” means the Town and Country Planning (Crown Development Applications) (Procedure and Written Representations) Order 2025;\n“applicable representation period” has the meaning given in the 2025 Order;\n“appointed representative” means a person appointed under section 321(5) or (6) of the 1990 Act;\n“assessor” means a person appointed by the Secretary of State to sit with an inspector at an inquiry or re-opened inquiry to advise the inspector on such matters arising as the Secretary of State may specify;\n“closed evidence” means evidence which is subject to a security direction;\n“Crown development application” means an application made under section 293D of the 1990 Act;\n“document” includes a photograph, map or plan;\n“electronic communication” has the meaning given in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000;\n“inspector” means—\n(a) in relation to a standard application, a person appointed by the Secretary of State under section 293I of the 1990 Act to determine the relevant application;\n(b) in relation to a recovered application, a person appointed by the Secretary of State to assist him in the consideration of written representations or the holding of a hearing or inquiry;\n“land” means the land or building to which the relevant application relates;\n“last representation period” has the meaning given in the 2025 Order;\n“persons entitled to appear at the hearing” means the persons listed in rule 7(2);\n“persons entitled to appear at the inquiry” means the persons listed in rule 19(1);\n“recovered application” means a Crown development application which falls to be determined by the Secretary of State as a consequence of a direction given under section 293J(1) of the 1990 Act;\n“relevant local planning authority” has the meaning given in the 2025 Order;\n“re-opened inquiry” means an inquiry which, having been closed, is re-opened to consider any new evidence or any new matter of fact, or following the quashing of the decision following the original inquiry;\n“security direction” means a direction given by the Secretary of State under section 321(3) of the 1990 Act;\n“standard application” means a Crown development application which falls to be determined by a person appointed by the Secretary of State under section 293I of the 1990 Act;\n“starting date” means the date of the notice given by the Secretary of State under rule 13(1);\n“statement of case” has the meaning given in rule 13(3);\n“statutory party” means a person specified in article 9(1) of the 2025 Order to whom a notice must be sent by the applicant;\n“working day” means a day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 is a bank holiday in England.\n(2) Any reference in these Rules to a Crown development application, a standard application or a recovered application also includes a reference to any connected listed building application (within the meaning of the 2025 Order).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2025/409."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Subsections (5) to (12) of section 321 were inserted by section 80(1) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 293D was inserted by section 109(2) of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2000 c. 7. The definition of “electronic communication” was amended by paragraph 158 of Schedule 17 to the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Section 293I was inserted by section 109(2) of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Section 293J(1) was inserted by section 109(2) of the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Act 2023."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/410/rule/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:17:59.608741+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."
}