Town and Country Planning Act 1990

[F1 Development progress reports E+W

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 90B and cross-heading inserted (26.12.2023 for specified purposes) by Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), ss. 114(3), 255(3) (with s. 247)

90B Condition relating to development progress reports in England E+W

(1) This section applies where relevant planning permission is granted for relevant residential development in England.

(2) The relevant planning permission must be granted subject to a condition that a development progress report must be provided to the local planning authority in whose area the development is to be carried out for each reporting period.

(3) The first reporting period in relation to the development is to be a period—

(a) beginning at a prescribed time or by reference to a prescribed event, and

(b) during which the development is begun.

(4) A new reporting period is to begin immediately after the end of a reporting period which is not the last reporting period.

(5) A reporting period which is not the last reporting period is to be a period of 12 months.

(6) The last reporting period is to be a period ending with the day on which the development is completed (subject to any provision made under subsection (9)).

(7) A “development progress report”, in relation to relevant residential development, means a report which sets out—

(a) the progress that has been made, and that remains to be made, towards completing the dwellings the creation of which the development is to involve, as at the end of the reporting period to which the report relates,

(b) the progress which is predicted to be made towards completing those dwellings over each subsequent reporting period up to and including the last reporting period, and

(c) such other information as may be prescribed in regulations under subsection (9).

(8) If relevant planning permission is granted without the condition required by subsection (2), it is to be treated as having been granted subject to that condition.

(9) The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision—

(a) about the form and content of development progress reports;

(b) about when and how development progress reports are to be provided to local planning authorities;

(c) about who may or must provide development progress reports to local planning authorities;

(d) about the provision of development progress reports and other information to local planning authorities where there is a change in circumstances in connection with relevant residential development, such as (for example) where the development is no longer intended to be completed in accordance with—

(i) the relevant planning permission;

(ii) a previous development progress report;

(iii) any timescales specified in a commencement notice given under section 93G;

(e) about when a condition under subsection (2) is to be treated as being discharged;

(f) about when relevant residential development is to be treated as being completed for the purposes of this section.

(10) In this section—

• “relevant planning permission” means planning permission other than—

  (a)

  planning permission granted by a development order;

  (b)

  planning permission granted for development carried out before the grant of that permission;

  (c)

  planning permission granted for a limited period;

  (d)

  planning permission granted by an enterprise zone scheme;

  (e)

  planning permission granted by a simplified planning zone scheme;

• “relevant residential development” means development which—

  (a)

  involves the creation of one or more dwellings, and

  (b)

  is of a prescribed description.]