Explanatory note

This Order makes provision in relation to Wales which corresponds to section 96A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. It does this by removing “in England” from subsection (1) of that section. The Order also makes supplementary provision in section 96A in relation to Wales. Section 96A(4) provides that a local planning authority can only make a non-material change to a planning permission if an application is made by or for a person with an interest in the land concerned. Article 2 inserts subsection (10) which states when a person has “an interest in the land”.

Article 3 makes provision which has effect corresponding to section 184 of the Planning Act 2008. Section 184 removed the requirement in section 56 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 in relation to England, that the appropriate consent must be obtained to an error in a decision document being corrected. The amendments in article 3 remove the requirement to obtain consent to the correction of errors in decision documents in relation to Wales.