# The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Scotland) Order 1992, Article 12: Procedure on receipt of applications


(1) Any application made under any of articles 3 to 7 of this Order shall be lodged with the planning authority within whose district is situated the development to which the application relates.
(2) On receipt of any such application and any fee required to be paid under the Fees Regulations, the planning authority shall send to the applicant an acknowledgement thereof in the terms set out in the notification in Schedule 6.
(3) An application under any of articles 3 to 6 of this Order shall not be entertained unless it is accompanied by any fee payable under the Fees Regulations.
(4) Where, after sending an acknowledgement as required by paragraph (2) of this article the planning authority form the opinion that the application may be invalid by reason of failure to comply with any of the requirements of articles 3 to 7 or with any other statutory requirements they shall notify the applicant that the application is invalid.
(5) Subject to paragraph (7) below—
(a) in circumstances where the planning authority has dispensed with the requirements of article 9, in accordance with sub-paragraph (6) of that article, and the applicant has not submitted a certificate under article 3(c)(iv), 4(2)(c)(iv) or 6(c)(iii); or
(b) where the application relates to development of one or more of the classes of development specified in Schedule 7 (bad neighbour development); or
(c) where an applicant for planning permission, outline planning permission or reserved matters is unable to notify persons holding an interest in neighbouring land as referred to at article 9(4),
the planning authority shall publish a notice in the form set out in Schedule 8 in a newspaper circulating in the locality in which the neighbouring land is situated, as soon as practicable after the date when the application for planning permission was received by them.
(6) The date when the application was received shall be as specified in article 14(3).
(7) The planning authority shall not publish a notice in accordance with paragraph (5) where a notice has been published by the applicant in accordance with section 24(2) of the Act (notification of applications to owners and agricultural tenants) or is required to be published by the planning authority in accordance with section 25(2)(a) of the Act (publicity for applications affecting conservation areas).
(8) Where the planning authority are required to publish a notice in a newspaper in accordance with paragraph (5), the applicant shall pay the cost to be incurred by the planning authority in arranging such advertisement at the time of submitting his application.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/224/article/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-scotland-order-1992/article-12
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