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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-crown-development-urgent-applications-procedure-england-order-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/411",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Crown Development) (Urgent Applications) (Procedure) (England) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-crown-development-urgent-applications-procedure-england-order-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSections 293B and 293C of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8) (as inserted by section 109 of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55)) provide a route for applications for planning permission for Crown development in England where the development is considered to be of national importance, and where it is also necessary that the development be carried out as a matter of urgency.\nThis Order sets out the procedures in connection with applications under section 293B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.\nIn particular, this Order provides for:\nthe content and the procedure in relation to the making of applications for planning permission and reserved matter applications under section 293B of the 1990 Act,\nthe applicant to serve a notice on the owners of the land to which the application relates,\nthe Secretary of State and the local planning authority to publicise the application,\nthe Secretary of State to consult the relevant local planning authority and certain statutory consultees in relation to the application, and\nthe time period within which the Secretary of State is to make a decision in relation to an application and the requirements as to publication of the decision.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary sector or communities bodies is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/411/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:17:58.817418+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."
}