Regulation 11 Public inspection of documents

(1)

The relevant planning authority shall make available for public inspection at all reasonable hours at the place where the appropriate register (or relevant part of that register^f1) is kept a copy of—

(a)

every regulation 4 notice given by the authority;

(b)

every direction received by the authority under regulation 5;

(c)

the accompanying statement of reasons (if any);

(d)

every notice received by the authority under regulation 7; and

(e)

every environmental statement received by the authority by virtue of regulation 8(1)(a);

and copies of those documents shall remain so available for a period of two years or until particulars of the notice or direction are entered in Part II of the register in accordance with paragraph (2), whichever is the sooner.

(2)

Where particulars of any planning permission granted by the Secretary of State under section 177 are entered in Part II of the appropriate register^f2, the local planning register authority shall take steps to secure that that Part also contains—

(a)

such particulars of—

(i)

any regulation 4 notice;

(ii)

any direction given under regulation 5; and

(iii)

any notice given under regulation 7,

as are relevant to the development for which permission has been granted; and

(b)

a copy of the environmental statement received by the authority by virtue of regulation 8(1)(a) relevant to that development.

(3)

In this regulation—

“appropriate register” means the register kept pursuant to section 69 of the Act^f3; and
“the local planning register authority” has the same meaning as in article 25(1) of the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: See article 25(10) of the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/419).
f2: See section 177(8) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and article 25(4) of the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995.
f3: Section 69 was amended by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991, Schedule 7, paragraph 13.