Section 151: Notice under s.72 treated as planning decision

Town and Country Planning Act 1971 · 1971 c.78

Part VII: Compensation for Planning Decisions Restricting New Development

151

Where a notice under section 72(1) of this Act is served in respect of the whole or part of any land, the provisions of this Part of this Act shall have effect as if the application, in consequence of which the notice is served, had been an effective application for planning permission, and as if the notice had been a planning decision of the local planning authority refusing that permission in respect of that land or that part thereof, as the case may be.

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