Town and Country Planning Act 1971

Planning permission: general

12 Subsection (1) of section 23 of this Act applies (subject to the provisions of that section) to the carrying out of development whether before or after the commencement of this Act, except that it does not apply to development carried out on or before the appointed day.

13 In sections 26 and 27 of this Act references to an application for planning permission do not include references to any application made before 16th August 1959.

14 Subsection (2)(b) of section 26, and the other provisions of that section relating to subsection (2)(b), do not apply to my application made before 1st April 1969.

15 Where by virtue of paragraph 12 of Schedule 14 to the Act of 1962 (works for making good war damage which were begun between the appointed day and 13th December 1950) any works were, immediately before the commencement of this Act, treated for the purposes of that Act as if planning permission had been granted unconditionally in respect thereof, those works shall be so treated for the purposes of this Act also.

16 For the purposes of paragraph 1 of this Schedule, any order made or having effect as if made by virtue of subsection (3) of section 19 of the Act of 1962, being an order which was saved on the repeal of that subsection by the Secretary of State for the [S.I. 1970/1681.] Environment Order 1970, shall be treated as having been made under provisions of the Act of 1962 corresponding to those of section 31 of this Act notwithstanding the omission from the said section 31 of provisions corresponding to those of the said section 19 which were repealed as aforesaid.