28.—(1) This Article applies to applications for planning permission for the development of land without complying with conditions subject to which a previous planning permission was granted.
(2) A development order may make special provision with respect to—
(a)the form and content of such applications; and
(b)the procedure to be followed in connection with such applications.
(3) On such an application the Department shall consider only the question of the conditions subject to which planning permission should be granted, and—
(a)if it decides that planning permission should be granted subject to conditions differing from those subject to which the previous permission was granted, or that it should be granted unconditionally, the Department shall grant planning permission accordingly; and
(b)if it decides that planning permission should be granted subject to the same conditions as those subject to which the previous permission was granted, the Department shall refuse the application.
(4) This Article does not apply where the application is made after the previous planning permission has become time-expired, that is to say, the previous permission having been granted subject to a condition as to the time within which the development to which it related was to be begun, that time has expired without the development having been begun.
[F1(5) Planning permission shall not be granted under this Article to the extent that it has effect to change a condition subject to which a previous planning permission was granted by extending the time within which—
(a)a development must be begun;
(b)an application for approval of reserved matters (within the meaning of Article 35) must be made.]
F1Art. 28(5) added (10.6.2006) by Planning Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1252 (N.I. 7)), arts. 1(4), 10(1) (with (3))