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2.—(1) In this Order unless the context otherwise requires—
“the 2011 Act” means the Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011;
“appointed officer” means a person appointed by the council for the purposes of section 31(1)(a) of the 2011 Act;
“appropriate council” means the council for the district in which the land to which the application relates is situated;
“area of outstanding natural beauty” means an area so designated under Article 14(1) of the Nature Conservation and Amenity Lands (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 M1;
“area of special scientific interest” means an area so designated under Article 28 of the Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 M2;
“conservation area” has the same meaning given in section 104(12) (conservation areas) of the 2011 Act;
“council” means a district council;
“the Department” means the Department of the Environment;
“EIA development” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2 of the EIA Regulations;
“EIA Regulations” means the Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 M3;
“Enterprise Order” means the Enterprise Zones (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 M4;
“Fees Regulations” means the Planning (Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 M5;
“floor space” means the total floor space in a building or buildings;
“hazardous substance” has the meaning assigned to that term in regulation 3(1) of the Planning (Hazardous Substances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 M6;
“identified occupier” means the occupier of premises within a 90 metre radius of the boundary of the application site;
“industrial process” means a process for or incidental to any of the following purposes—
the making of any article or part of any article (including a ship or vessel, or a film, video or sound recording);
the altering, repairing, maintaining, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning, washing, packing, canning, adapting for sale, breaking up or demolition of any article; or
the getting, dressing or treatment of minerals in the course of any trade or business other than agriculture, and other than a process carried out on land used as a mine or adjacent to and occupied together with a mine;
“landscaping” means the treatment of land (other than buildings) being a site or part of a site in respect of which an outline planning permission is granted, for the purpose of enhancing or protecting the amenities of the site and the area in which it is situated and includes screening by fences, walls or other means, the planting of trees, hedges, shrubs or grass, the formation of banks, terraces or other earthworks, the laying out of gardens or courts, and the provision of other amenity features;
“licensed aerodrome” has the same meaning as in the [F1Air Navigation Order 2016] ;
“major development” has the meaning assigned to that term in Regulation 2 the Planning (Development Management) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 M7;
“National Park” means an area so designated under Article 12(1) of the Nature Conservation and Amenity Lands (Northern Ireland) Order 1985;
“Natura 2000” has the same meaning as in the Conservation (Natural Habitats etc) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 M8;
“nature reserve” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 2(2) of the Nature Conservation and Amenity Lands (Northern Ireland) Order 1985;
“neighbouring land” means land which directly adjoins the application site or which would adjoin it but for an entry or a road less than 20 metres in width;
“outline planning permission” means a planning permission for the erection of a building which is granted subject to a condition (in addition to any other conditions which may be imposed) requiring subsequent approval to be obtained from the Department with respect to one or more reserved matters;
“pre-application community consultation report” means a written report prepared in accordance with section 28 (pre-application community consultation report) of the 2011 Act;
“reserved matters” in relation to an outline planning permission or an application for such permission, means any of the following matters in respect of which details have not been given in the application, namely—
siting;
design;
external appearance;
means of access; or
the landscaping of the site;
“road” is that which is defined by Article 2 of the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 M9;
“waste development” means any operational development designed to be used wholly or mainly for the purpose of, or material change of use to, treating, storing, processing or disposing of refuse or waste materials;
“World Heritage Site” means a property appearing on the World Heritage List kept under Article 11(2) of the 1972 UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage M10;
(2) In this Order and in relation to the use of electronic communications or electronic storage for any purpose of this Order which is capable of being carried out electronically—
(a)the expression “address” includes any number or address used for the purpose of such communications or storage, except that where this Order imposes any obligation on any person to provide a name and address to any other person, the obligation shall not be fulfilled unless the person on whom it is imposed provides a postal address;
(b)references to applications, forms, maps, plans, drawings, certificates or other documents or to copies of such things include references to such documents or copies of them in electronic form.
(3) Paragraphs (4) to (7) apply where an electronic communication is used by a person for the following purposes—
(a)fulfilling any requirement in this Order to give or send any application, notice or other document to any other person (“the recipient”); or
(b)lodging an application, certificate or other document under Article 3(3) with the council or, as the case may be, the Department.
(4) The requirement shall not be taken to be fulfilled, or (as the case may be) the application or other document shall not be taken to have been lodged, unless the document transmitted by the electronic communication is—
(a)capable of being accessed by the recipient;
(b)legible in all material respects; and
(c)sufficiently permanent to be used for subsequent reference.
(5) In paragraph (4), “legible in all material respects” means that the information contained in the notice or document is available to the recipient to no lesser extent than it would be if sent or given by means of a document in printed form.
(6) Where the electronic communication is received by the recipient outside the recipient's business hours, it shall be taken to have been received on the next working day; and for this purpose “working day” means a day which is not a Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday.
(7) A requirement of this Order that any application, notice or other document should be in writing is fulfilled where the document meets the criteria in paragraph (4).
Textual Amendments
F1Words in art. 2(1) substituted (25.8.2016) by The Air Navigation Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/765), art. 1, Sch. 14 para. 14 (with arts. 17-23, 274(2)-(4))
Marginal Citations
M3S.R. 2015 No.74
M5S.R. 2015 No.73
M6S.R. 2015 No.61
M7S.R. 2015 No.71
M8S.R. 1995 No.380
M91993 No. 3160 (N.I. 15)
M10See Command Paper 9424
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