{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-order-1995/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-order-1995/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/419",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-order-1995",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Applications relating to county matters",
  "text": "(1) A county planning authority shall, before determining—\n(a) an application for planning permission under Part III of the Act (control over development);\n(b) an application for a certificate of lawful use or development under section 191 or 192 of the Act (certificates of lawfulness of existing or proposed use or development); or\n(c) an application for approval of reserved matters,\ngive the district planning authority, if any, for the area in which the relevant land lies a period of at least 14 days, from the date of receipt of the application by the district authority, within which to make recommendations about the manner in which the application shall be determined; and shall take any such recommendations into account.\n(2) A county planning authority shall—\n(a) on determining an application of a kind mentioned in paragraph (1), as soon as reasonably practicable notify the district planning authority, if any, of the terms of their decision; or\n(b) if any such application is referred to the Secretary of State, inform the district planning authority, if any, of the date when it was so referred and, when notified to them, of the terms of the decision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Sections 191 to 194 were substituted by section 10(1) of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2087",
      "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Amendment) (England) Order 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/419/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:15:55.554418+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."
}