Town and Country Planning Act 1990

8 (1) Where a district planning authority or, in a metropolitan county, a local planning authority have been notified in writing by the council of a parish or community wholly or partly situated in the area of that authority that the council wish to be informed—

(a) of every application for planning permission relating to land in the parish or community,

(b) of every application so relating for approval of a matter reserved under an outline planning permission within the meaning of section 92, or

(c) of any description of such applications,

if the authority receive any such application or, as the case may be, an application of any such description they shall inform the council in writing of the application, indicating the nature of the development to which the application relates and identifying the land to which it relates.

(2) The provisions which may be contained in a development order shall include provision requiring—

(a) a local planning authority, who are determining any application of which the council of a parish or community are entitled to be informed, to give that council an opportunity to make representations to the local planning authority as to the manner in which the application should be determined and to take into account any such representations;

(b) the district planning authority or, in a metropolitan county, a local planning authority to notify that council of the terms of their or, in a non-metropolitan county, the county planning authority’s decision on any such application or, where the application is referred to the Secretary of State, the date when it was so referred and, when notified to them, the terms of his decision.