The Town and Country Planning General Development Order 1988

Notice to parish and community councils

21.—(1) A district planning authority (or, in a metropolitan county, a local planning authority) on receiving any application of which the council of a parish or community are, by virtue of paragraph 20 of Schedule 16 to the Local Government Act 1972(1) entitled to be informed, shall as soon as practicable inform that council in writing of the application, indicating the nature of the development to which the application relates and identifying the land to which it relates.

(2) Where a district planning authority receives an application to which paragraph (1) applies and the application falls to be determined by another authority, the district planning authority shall so inform the parish or community council and shall give notice of the date on which they have done so to that other authority.

(3) Where the council of the parish or community are given information pursuant to paragraph (1), they shall as soon as practicable notify the relevant authority whether they propose to make any representations about the manner in which the application should be determined, and shall make any such representations to that authority within 14 days of the notification to them of the application.

(4) A local planning authority shall not determine any application to which paragraph (1) applies before—

(i) the council of the parish or community inform them that they do not propose to make any representations;

(ii) representations are made by that council; or

(iii) the period of 14 days mentioned in paragraph (3) has elapsed,

whichever shall first occur; and in determining the application the authority shall take into account any representations received from the council of the parish or community.

(5) The district planning authority (or, in a metropolitan county, the local planning authority) shall notify the council of the parish or community of the terms of the decision on any such application or, where the application is referred to the Secretary of State, of the date when it was so referred and, when notified to them, of the terms of his decision.

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Paragraph 20 was amended by the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 4) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/452).