The Town and Country Planning (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1988

Extension of the period for an authority’s decision on a planning application

16.—(1) In determining for the purposes of section 37 (appeal in default of planning decision) the time which has elapsed without the local planning authority giving notice to the applicant of their decision in a case where—

(a) the authority have notified an applicant in accordance with regulation 9(1) that the submission of an environmental statement is required; and

(b) the Secretary of State has given a direction in the matter,

no account shall be taken of any period before the issue of the direction.

(2) Where it falls to an authority determining an application for planning permission to take environmental information into consideration, article 7 of the General Development Order shall have effect as if—

(a) there were substituted for the reference in paragraph (6)(1) thereof to a period of 8 weeks, a reference to a period of 16 weeks; and

(b) there were included in paragraph (6A)(a) and (b) thereof references to the environmental statement and the documents required by virtue of regulation 12 or 13 to accompany it.

(1)

Article 7(6) was substituted by S.I. 1980/1946.