{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-permission-in-principle-order-2017/article-5S",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/402",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Permission in Principle) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-permission-in-principle-order-2017",
  "path": "article/5S",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5S",
  "heading": "Time periods for decisions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (6), where a valid application has been received by a local planning authority the authority must within the period specified in paragraph (2) give the applicant notice of their decision or notice that the application has been referred to the Secretary of State.\n(2) The period specified in this paragraph is—\n(a) 5 weeks beginning with the day immediately following that on which the application is received by the local planning authority; or\n(b) unless the applicant has already given notice of appeal to the Secretary of State, such extended period as may be agreed in writing between the applicant and the local planning authority.\n(3) In this article “valid application” means an application which—\n(a) complies with the requirements of article 5D, and\n(b) consists of any fee required to be paid in respect of the application (and for this purpose, lodging a cheque for the amount of a fee is to be taken as payment),\nand a valid application is taken to have been received where the last of the documents or particulars referred to in article 5D(1) have been received by the authority and any fee required has been paid.\n(4) Where a fee due in respect of an application has been paid by a cheque which is subsequently dishonoured—\n(a) paragraph (2)(a) has effect as if for “the application is received by the local planning authority” there were substituted “the local planning authority are satisfied that they have received the full amount of the fee”; and\n(b) paragraph (2)(b) has effect as if, at the end, there were added “once the authority are satisfied that they have received the full amount of the fee”.\n(5) A local planning authority must provide such information about applications made under article 5D as the Secretary of State may by direction require and any such direction may include provision as to the persons to be informed and the manner in which the information is to be provided.\n(6) A local planning authority must not determine an application for permission in principle where any notice of, or information about, the application has been—\n(a) given by site display under article 5G, before the end of the period of 14 days beginning with the date when the notice was first displayed by site display;\n(b) served on an infrastructure manager under article 5H, before the end of the period of 14 days beginning with the date when the notice was served on that person; or\n(c) published on a website under article 5G, within the period of 14 days beginning with the date on which the notice or information was published.\n(7) When computing the number of days in paragraphs (6)(a) and (6)(c), any day which is a public holiday must be disregarded.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 5S(7) inserted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by The Town and Country Planning (Local Authority Consultations etc.) (England) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/119), art. 31"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/402/article/5S",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:12:43.491845+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}