# The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995, Article 6: Notice of applications for planning permission


(1) Subject to paragraph (2), an applicant for planning permission shall give requisite notice of the application to any person (other than the applicant) who on the prescribed date is an owner of the land to which the application relates, or a tenant,—
(a) by serving the notice on every such person whose name and address is known to him; and
(b) where he has taken reasonable steps to ascertain the names and addresses of every such person, but has been unable to do so, by local advertisement after the prescribed date.
(2) In the case of an application for planning permission for development consisting of the winning and working of minerals by underground operations, instead of giving notice in the manner provided for by paragraph (1), the applicant shall give requisite notice of the application to any person (other than the applicant) who on the prescribed date is an owner of any of the land to which the application relates, or a tenant,—
(a) by serving the notice on every such person whom the applicant knows to be such a person and whose name and address is known to him;
(b) by local advertisement after the prescribed date; and
(c) by site display in at least one place in every parish or community within which there is situated any part of the land to which the application relates, leaving the notice in position for not less than seven days in the period of 21 days immediately preceding the making of the application to the local planning authority.
(3) The notice required by paragraph (2)(c) shall (in addition to any other matters required to be contained in it) name a place within the area of the local planning authority to whom the application is made where a copy of the application for planning permission, and of all plans and other documents submitted with it, will be open to inspection by the public at all reasonable hours during such period as may be specified in the notice.
(4) Where the notice is, without any fault or intention of the applicant, removed, obscured or defaced before the period of seven days referred to in paragraph (2)(c) has elapsed, he shall be treated as having complied with the requirements of that paragraph if he has taken reasonable steps for protection of the notice and, if need be, its replacement.
(5) (a) The date prescribed for the purposes of section 65(2) of the Act (notice etc. of applications for planning permission), and the “prescribed date” for the purposes of this article, is the day 21 days before the date of the application;
(b) The applications prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of “owner” in section 65(8) of the Act are minerals applications, and the minerals prescribed for the purposes of that paragraph are any minerals other than oil, gas, coal, gold or silver.
(6) In this article—
“minerals applications” mean applications for planning permission for development consisting of the winning and working of minerals;
“requisite notice” means notice in the appropriate form set out in Part 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order or in a form substantially to the like effect; and
“tenant” means the tenant of an agricultural holding any part of which is comprised in the land to which an application relates.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/419/article/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-order-1995/article-6
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