Article 14 Time periods for decision

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

art. 14(1) words substituted by Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) 1994 art. 4(a)
art. 14(1A)(1B) inserted by Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) 1994 art. 4(b)
art. 14(2) substituted by Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) 1994 art. 4(c)
art. 14(3)(a) words inserted by Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) 1994 art. 4(d)
arts.12(1)(4), 14(1)(2), 22(3) amended by Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) 1992 Sch, para 3
art. 14 modified by Environmental Impact Assessment 1999 reg. 45(2)(a)(b)
art. 14(3)(aa) inserted by Cairngorms National Park Designation, Transitional and Consequential Provisions 2003 art. 7(11)

(1)

Without prejudice to sections 24(4) and 25(3) of the Act, an application under any of articles 3 to 7 shall not be determined until the expiry of a period of 14 days beginning with whichever of the following dates is the later:—

(a)

the date on which the application was received by the planning authority; or

(b)

the date on which a notice in accordance with article 12(5) was published by the planning authority.

(2)

Where a valid application under any of articles 3 to 7 has been received by a planning authority, the period within which the authority shall give notice to an applicant of their decision or determination or referral of the application to the Secretary of State or regional planning authority, shall be two months, commencing on the date of receipt of the application or (except where the applicant has already given notice of appeal to the Secretary of State) such extended period as may be agreed upon in writing between the applicant and the planning authority.

(3)

For the purposes of this article and article 12 the date when the application was received shall be taken to be—

(a)

in a case where a fee was required to be paid or where the applicant was required to pay the cost of advertisement under article 12(8), the date when the application form, any certificates required by the Act and the appropriate fee or the cost of advertising or both, were lodged with the planning authority or where these events did not all occur on the same day, the date when the last of such events occurred; or

(b)

in any other case, the date when the application and any certificates required under the Act were lodged with the planning authority.