{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-order-1988/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-order-1988/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1813",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-order-1988",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "General provisions relating to applications",
  "text": "(1) Any application made under regulation 3 of the 1988 Regulations or article 8 or 9 above, shall be made—\n(a) where the land is in Greater London or a metropolitan county, to the local planning authority;\n(b) where the land is situated elsewhere, to the district planning authority.\n(2) When the local planning authority with whom an application has to be lodged receive—\n(a) in the case of an application made under paragraph (1) of regulation 3 of the 1988 Regulations, the form of application required by that paragraph, together with the certificate or other documents required by section 27 (notification to owners and agricultural tenants) of the Act;\n(b) in the case of an application made under regulation 3(3) of the 1988 Regulations, sufficient information to enable the authority to identify the previous grant of planning permission, together with the certificate or other documents required by section 27 of the Act;\n(c) in the case of an application made under article 8 or 9 above, the documents and information required by that article,\nand the fee (if any) required to be paid in respect of the application, the authority shall as soon as is reasonably practicable send to the applicant an acknowledgement of the application in the terms (or substantially in the terms) set out in Part 1 of Schedule 3 hereto.\n(3) In the case of an application which falls to be determined by the county planning authority, the district planning authority shall, as soon as is reasonably practicable—\n(a) notify the applicant that the application will be so determined;\n(b) provide the county planning authority with all relevant plans, drawings, particulars and documents submitted with or in support of the application; and\n(c) notify the county planning authority of all action taken by the district planning authority in relation to the application.\n(4) Where, after sending an acknowledgement as required by paragraph (2) of this article, the local planning authority consider that the application is invalid by reason of a failure to comply with the requirements of regulation 3 of the 1988 Regulations or article 8 or 9 above or any other statutory requirement, they shall as soon as reasonably practicable notify the applicant that his application is invalid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Fees are prescribed by regulations made under section 87 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65); S.I. 1983/1674, as amended by S.I. 1985/1182 and 1987/101."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/2805",
      "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/1563",
      "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) (No. 5) Order 1992"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1813/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:56:26.565388+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."
}