1988 No. 1249 (S.123)
The Town and Country Planning (General Development) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Order 1988
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 21, 28 (as read with regulation 5 of the Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1988(1) and 273(3) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972(2), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement1
1
This Order may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (General Development) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Order 1988 and shall be included amongst the Orders which may be cited together as the Town and Country Planning (General Development) (Scotland) Orders 1981 to 1988(3).
2
This Order shall come into force on 10th August 1988.
Amendment of the general development order2
The Town and Country Planning (General Development) (Scotland) Order 1981(4) shall be amended by substituting, for article 11(2), the following:—
2
Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), the Secretary of State may in particular give directions—
a
that particular proposed development of a description set out in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 to the Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1988 is exempted from the application of those Regulations;
b
as to whether particular proposed development is or is not development in respect of which those Regulations require the consideration of environmental information (as defined in those Regulations) before planning permission can be granted; or
c
that development of any class described in the direction is development in respect of which those Regulations require the consideration of such information before such permission can be granted.
3
A planning authority or regional planning authority shall deal with applications for planning permission for development to which a direction given under this article applies in such manner as to give effect to the direction.
(This note is not part of the Order)