The Town and Country Planning (Electronic Communications) (England) Order 2003

7.  In rule 21 (notification of decision)—

(a) after paragraph (1), insert—

“(1A) Notification of a decision and reasons is to be taken to have been given to a person for the purposes of this rule where—

(a) the Secretary of State and the person have agreed that decisions and reasons required under this rule to be given in writing may instead be accessed by that person on a website;

(b) the decision and reasons are a decision and reasons to which that agreement applies;

(c) the Secretary of State has published the decision and reasons on a website;

(d) the person is notified, in a manner for the time being agreed between him and the Secretary of State, of—

(i) the publication of the decision and reasons on a website;

(ii) the address of the website;

(iii) the place on the website where the decision and reasons may be accessed, and how they may be accessed.”;

(b) in paragraph (2), after “decision” in the first place in which it occurs, insert “or published on a website in accordance with paragraph (1A)”;

(c) after paragraph (3), insert—

“(3A) For the purposes of the previous paragraph an opportunity is to be taken to have been afforded to a person where that person is notified of—

(a) publication of the relevant documents on a website;

(b) the address of the website;

(c) the place on the website where the documents may be accessed, and how they may be accessed.”.