{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-section-62a-applications-hearings-amendment-rules-2016/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-section-62a-applications-hearings-amendment-rules-2016/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/955",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Section 62A Applications) (Hearings) (Amendment) Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-section-62a-applications-hearings-amendment-rules-2016",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Town and Country Planning (Section 62A Applications) (Hearings) Rules 2013",
  "text": "(1) The Town and Country Planning (Section 62A Applications) (Hearings) Rules 2013 are amended as follows.\n(2) In rule 2 (interpretation), in the appropriate place, insert—\n““relevant application” has the meaning given in section 62A(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;”\n(3) In rule 4 (date and notification of hearing)—\n(a) in paragraph (2), for “not less than 2 weeks’” substitute “at least the minimum amount of”;\n(b) after paragraph (3) insert—\n“(3A) In paragraph (2) “the minimum amount of notice” means—\n(a) in relation to a hearing to be held regarding a relevant application in respect of major development, 2 weeks’;\n(b) in relation to a hearing to be held regarding a relevant application in respect of non-major development, five working days’.”\n(c) after paragraph (5) insert—\n“(6) In this rule, “major development” and “non-major development” have the meanings given by regulation 3 of the Town and Country Planning (Section 62A Applications) (Written Representations and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/2141."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 62A was inserted into the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8) by section 1 of the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (c. 27), and subsection (2) was substituted by section 153(3) of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/2142; amended by S.I. 2016/944 with effect from 21st October 2016 which inserts definitions of “major development” and “non-major development”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/955/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:19:42.130337+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."
}