The Great Yarmouth Third River Crossing Development Consent Order 2020

Applications made under requirements E+W+S

20.—(1) Where an application has been made to the relevant discharging authority, the discharging authority must give notice to the undertaker of the discharging authority's decision on the application within—

(a) a period of 8 weeks beginning with—

(i) the day immediately following that on which the application is received by the discharging authority; or

(ii) where, further information has been requested by the discharging authority under paragraph 88, the day immediately following—

(aa) the day the further information was supplied; or

(bb) where an appeal has been made by the undertaker under sub-paragraph 89(1)(d) or (e) and the appeal is allowed, the day on which the appeal was determined by the Secretary of State; or

(cc) where an appeal has been made by the undertaker under sub-paragraph 89(1)(d) or (e) and the appeal is dismissed, the day on which the relevant further or additional information is supplied; or

(b) such longer period as the discharging authority and the undertaker may agree in writing.

(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), in determining an application for a specified consent, the discharging authority may—

(a) grant the specified consent, either unconditionally or subject to reasonable conditions; or

(b) refuse the specified consent,

and where the specified consent, agreement or approval is refused or granted subject to conditions, the discharging authority must provide reasons for the refusal or (as the case may be) conditions in the notice of its decision with the notice of the decision.

(3) In the event that the discharging authority does not give notice of its decision within the period set out in sub-paragraph (1), the discharging authority is taken to have granted the specified consent sought by the application without any condition or qualification at the end of that period.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 2 para. 20 in force at 15.10.2020, see art. 1