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Section 71: Consultations in connection with determinations under s. 70.

Town and Country Planning Act 1990 · 1990 c. 8View on legislation.gov.uk

Part III: Control over development

A development order may provide that a local planning authority shall not determine an application for planning permission or permission in principle before the end of such period as may be prescribed.

A development order may require a local planning authority—

to take into account in determining such an application such representations, made within such period, as may be prescribed; and
to give to any person whose representations have been taken into account such notice as may be prescribed of their decision.

In subsections (1) and (2) references to —

an application for consent, agreement or approval as mentioned in section 61DB(2), and
an application for planning permission include references to an application for approval under section 61L(2) , and
an application for consent, agreement or approval where that consent, agreement or approval is required by a condition or limitation imposed under section 61QI(1).

A development order making any provision by virtue of this section may make different provision for different cases or different classes of development.

Before a local planning authority grant planning permission for the use of land as a caravan site, they shall, unless they are also the authority with power to issue a site licence for that land, consult the local authority with that power.

Subsection (3) does not apply in relation to planning permission granted by a Mayoral development order or a neighbourhood development order.

In this section—

  • "prescribed" means prescribed by a development order

  • "site licence" means a licence under Part 1 of the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 authorising the use of land as a caravan site or under Part 2 of the Mobile Homes (Wales) Act 2013 authorising the use of the land as a site for mobile homes (within the meaning of that Act).

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