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Article 7 Application for determination under section 51

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

(1)

An application to a planning authority for a determination under section 51 of the Act—

(a)

shall be in writing;

(b)

shall describe the operations or change of use proposed; and

(c)

shall be accompanied by—

(i)

a plan sufficient to identify the land to which the application relates;

(ii)

where the proposal relates to carrying out of operations, such plans or drawings as are necessary to show the nature of the operations; and

(iii)

where the proposal relates to a change of use, details of the proposed use and of the use of the land at the date when the application is made or, where the land is not in active use at that date, details of the purpose for which it was last used.

(2)

The planning authority may by a direction require the applicant to furnish such further information as may be specified in the direction, to enable them to deal with the application.