Advertisement of applications
5. (1) Where an application for listed building consent, for conservation area consent or to vary or discharge conditions attached to a listed building consent or a conservation area consent is made to a planning authority in respect of any building, the planning authority shall–
(a) publish in the Edinburgh Gazette and in a local newspaper circulating in the locality in which the building is situated a notice indicating the nature of the works which are the subject of the application, naming a place within that locality where a copy of the application, and of all plans and other documents submitted with it, will be open to inspection by the public at all reasonable hours during the period of 21 days beginning with the date of publication of the notice and stating that representations may be made in writing to the planning authority within that period; and
(b) for not less than 7 days display on or near the said building a notice containing the same particulars as are required to be contained in the notice to be published in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph.
(2) No application for listed building consent, for conservation area consent, or to vary or discharge conditions attached to a listed building consent or a conservation area consent shall be determined by the planning authority before the following periods have elapsed, namely–
(a) the period of 21 days referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) of this regulation, and where the date of publication of the notice in the Edinburgh Gazette and the date of publication of the notice in a local newspaper are not the same the above mentioned period of 21 days will be taken to commence on whichever is the later of the two dates of publication; and
(b) the period of 21 days beginning with the date on which the notice required by sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1) of this regulation was first displayed;
and in determining the application the planning authority shall take into account any represen tations relating to the application which are received by them before these periods have elapsed.