Section 17: Power of local planning authority to decline to determine applications.

Planning and Compensation Act 1991 · 1991 c. 34View on legislation.gov.uk

Part I: Town and Country Planning: England and Wales

After section 70 of the principal Act there is inserted—

In section 78(2) of that Act (right to appeal to Secretary of State where local planning authority have failed to take a decision on an application) for "neither" there is substituted and for "nor" there is substituted—" done none of the following "

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