Part III Control over development
Determination of applications
71 Consultations in connection with determinations under s. 70.
F1(1)
A development order may provide that a local planning authority shall not determine an application for planning permission before the end of such period as may be prescribed.
(2)
A development order may require a local planning authority—
(a)
to take into account in determining such an application such representations, made within such period, as may be prescribed; and
(b)
to give to any person whose representations have been taken into account such notice as may be prescribed of their decision.
(2A)
A development order making any provision by virtue of this section may make different provision for different cases or different classes of development.
(3)
Before a local planning authority grant planning permission for the use of land as a caravan site, they shall, unless they are also the authority with power to issue a site licence for that land, consult the local authority with that power.
(4)
In this section—
“agricultural holding” has the same meaning as in section 66;
“owner” has the same meaning as in section 66 or, as the case may be, section 67; and
“site licence” means a licence under Part 1 of the M1Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 authorising the use of land as a caravan site.