Article 5D Applications for permission in principleF1

(1)

An application for permission in principle must—

(a)

be made in writing, to the local planning authority for the area in which the land is situated, on a form published by the Secretary of State (or a form to substantially the same effect);

(b)

include the particulars specified or referred to in the form;

(c)

be accompanied, whether electronically or otherwise, by—

(i)

a plan which identifies the land to which the application relates;

(ii)

except where the application is made by electronic communications or the local planning authority indicate that a lesser number is required, 3 copies of the form; and

(iii)

where consultation is required by virtue of article 5C, particulars of—

(aa)

how the applicant complied with section 61W(1) of the 1990 Act;

(bb)

any responses to the consultation that were received by the applicant; and

(cc)

the account taken of those responses by the applicant.

(2)

A plan required to be provided by paragraph (1)(c)(i) must be drawn to an identified scale and must show the direction of North.

(3)

Where an application is made using electronic communications to transmit a form to the local planning authority, the applicant is taken to have agreed—

(a)

to the use of such communications by the local planning authority for the purposes of the application;

(b)

that the applicant’s address for those purposes is the address incorporated in, or otherwise logically associated with, the application; and

(c)

that the applicant’s deemed agreement under this paragraph subsists until the applicant gives notice in writing of the withdrawal of consent to the use of electronic communications under article 7A.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Pt. 2A inserted (1.6.2018) by The Town and Country Planning (Permission in Principle) (Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/1309), arts. 1, 4