Part III Control over Development

Requirement for planning permission

29 Granting of planning permission: general.

1

Planning permission may be granted—

a

by a development order,

b

by the planning authority (or, where this Part so provides, by the Secretary of State) on application to the authority in accordance with regulations or a development order,

c

on the adoption or approval of a simplified planning zone scheme or alterations to such a scheme in accordance with section 49 or, as the case may be, section 53, or

d

on the designation of an enterprise zone or the approval of a modified scheme under Schedule 32 to the M1Local Government Planning and Land Act 1980 in accordance with section 55 of this Act.

2

Planning permission may also be deemed to be granted under section 57 (development with government authorisation).

3

This section is without prejudice to any other provisions of this Act providing for the granting of permission.