The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Scotland) Order 1992

Certificates accompanying applications

27.—(1) The certificates referred to in article 26(c)(iii) are—

(a) a certificate stating that at the beginning of the period of 21 days ending with the date of the application, no person other than the applicant, was the owner of any land to which the application relates;

(b) a certificate stating that the applicant has given the requisite notice of the application to all the persons, other than the applicant, who, at the beginning of the period of twenty-one days ending with the date of the application, were owners of any of the land to which the application relates, and setting out the names of those persons, the addresses at which notice of the application was given to them respectively, and the date of service of each such notice;

(c) a certificate stating that the applicant is unable to issue a certificate in accordance with either of the preceding sub-paragraphs, that he has given the requisite notice of the application to such one or more of the persons mentioned in the last preceding sub-paragraph as are specified in the certificate (setting out their names, the addresses at which notice of the application was given to them respectively, and the date of the service of each notice), that he has taken such steps as are reasonably open to him (specifying them) to ascertain the names and addresses of the remainder of those persons and that he has been unable to do so; or

(d) a certificate stating that the applicant is unable to submit a certificate in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph, that he has taken such steps as are reason ably open to him (specifying them) to ascertain the names and addresses of the persons mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph and that he has been unable to do so.

(2) Any such certificate as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (c) or sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (1) shall also contain a statement that the requisite notice of the application, as set out in the certificate, has on a date specified in the certificate (being a date not earlier than the beginning of the period mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) of the said paragraph) been published in a local newspaper circulating in the locality in which the land in question is situated.

(3) All certificates submitted under paragraphs (1) and (2) shall contain one or other of the following statements—

(a) a statement that none of the land to which the application relates constitutes or forms part of an agricultural holding;

(b) a statement that the applicant has given the requisite notice of the application to every person (other than the applicant) who, at the beginning of the period of 21 days ending with the date of the application, was a tenant of any agricultural holding any part of which was comprised in the land to which the application relates, and setting out the name of each such person, the address at which notice of the application was given to him, and the date of service of that notice.

(4) The planning authority may by a direction in writing require the applicant to furnish such further information as may be specified in the direction to enable them to deal with the application.

(5) (a) Certificates submitted for the purposes of sub-paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) of paragraph (1) shall be in the appropriate form set out in Part 1 of Schedule 11; and

(b) the requisite notices for the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be in the forms set out in Part 2 of Schedule 11.