The Town and Country Planning (Emergency Period and Extended Period) (Coronavirus) (Scotland) Regulations 2021

Saving provisions – planning permission

4.—(1) The provisions of sections 58 and 59 of the Act continue to have effect in relation to a relevant planning permission as they have effect immediately before the relevant date subject to the modifications specified in paragraph (2).

(2) The modifications are—

(a) section 58 of the Act is to have effect as if only subsections (3B) and (3C), as set out in paragraph 9 of schedule 7 of the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020, were inserted after section 58(3A) and subsections (3D) and (3E), as set out in that paragraph, were omitted,

(b) section 59 of the Act is to have effect as if only subsections (8A) and (8B), as set out in paragraph 10 of schedule 7 of the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020, were inserted after section 58(3A), and subsections (8D) and (8E), as set out in that paragraph, were omitted.

(3) In this regulation—

“relevant date” means the date on which the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 expires in accordance with section 12 of that Act,

“relevant planning permission” means—

(a)

in relation to section 58 of the Act, planning permission granted or deemed to have been granted before 30 September 2021, and

(b)

in relation to section 59 of the Act, planning permission in principle granted before 30 September 2021.