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Section 74D: Sections 74B and 74C: supplementary

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

Part III: Control over development

In sections 74B and 74C and this section—

  • "approved document" has the meaning given by section 74B(2)(d);

  • "condition" includes limitation;

  • "construction activities", in relation to the development of land, means activities consisting of or relating to the carrying out of the development;

  • "development" does not include mining operations in, on, over or under land.

References in sections 74B and 74C to construction activities include references to construction activities of a particular kind.

In calculating a period of 14 days for the purposes of section 74B(7) or 74C(6), no account is to be taken of a day which, apart from this subsection, would fall within that period and is—

Christmas Day,
Good Friday, or
a day which under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 is a bank holiday in England.

References in sections 74B and 74C to a condition or approved document include a condition or approved document as previously modified under section 74C.

A person who makes an application under section 74B is to be taken to have agreed—

to the use of electronic communications for all purposes relating to the application which are capable of being carried out electronically, and
that the person's address for the purpose of such communications is the address incorporated into, or otherwise logically associated with, the person's application.

In discharging its functions under sections 74B and 74C, a local planning authority must have regard to guidance issued by the Secretary of State.

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