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.
F2(2ZA)
In subsections (1) and (2) references to an application for planning permission include references to an application for approval under section 61L(2).
(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.
F3(3A)
Subsection (3) does not apply in relation to planning permission granted by a neighbourhood development order.
(4)
In this section—
F4 “ prescribed ” means prescribed by a development order
“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 F5or under Part 2 of the Mobile Homes (Wales) Act 2013 authorising the use of the land as a site for mobile homes (within the meaning of that Act).