Section 57: Additional requirement of notice for development affecting Conservation Area.

Town and Country Planning Act 1968 · 1968 c.72

Part V: Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest

57(1)

Where an application for planning permission for any development of land is made to a local planning authority and the case is one where the authority are required to comply with section 1(6) of the Civic Amenities Act 1967 (special publicity for planning applications affecting Conservation Areas), the authority shall also comply with the following subsection.

57(2)

The authority shall, for not less than seven days display a notice on or near the land to which the application relates, containing the same particulars as are required by section 1(6) (a) of the Civic Amenities Act 1967 to be contained in the notice to be published by the authority in a local newspaper.

57(3)

An application for planning permission to which section 1(6) of the said Act of 1967 applies shall not be determined by the local planning authority before both of the following periods have elapsed, namely:—

(a) the period of twenty-one days referred to in paragraph (a) of that subsection ; and

(b) the period of twenty-one days beginning with the date on which the notice required by subsection (2) of this section was first displayed ;

and in determining the application the authority shall take into account any representations relating to the application which are received by them before both those periods have elapsed.

57(4)

In the said section 1(6), paragraphs (b) and (c) shall cease to have effect.

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