The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Amendment) (England) Order 2010

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995 (“the GDPO”) specifies procedures connected with planning applications and appeals to the Secretary of State. This Order amends the GDPO in relation to England.

Article 4 amends article 4C of the GDPO. Article 4C makes provision for design and access statements which are required to accompany certain applications for planning permission. Design and access statements are no longer required for applications to develop land without compliance with conditions previously attached, nor for certain specified types of development outside designated areas. The definition of ‘designated area’ is amended so as to mean a conservation area or a World Heritage Site. Article 4 also amends the requirement for a design and access statement to demonstrate how the design of the development takes its context into account, so that this need no longer be demonstrated in relation specifically to layout, scale, landscaping, and appearance.

Article 5 amends the GDPO in relation to publicity, and introduces a requirement that local planning authorities publish certain information about all planning applications on their websites. Article 3 makes consequential amendments to article 1 and article 6.

Article 6 reduces the time limit in article 23 of the GDPO for making an appeal where the appeal relates to the same or substantially the same land and development as an enforcement notice. The amended time limit is either 28 days from the decision or the expiry of the period giving rise to the appeal or 28 days from the service of the enforcement notice, but no longer than the standard time limit. Article 8 makes consequential amendments to the notices in Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 1 to the GDPO.

Article 7 amends article 25 of the GDPO to require the planning register maintained by the local planning register authority to include details of applications for non-material changes to planning permissions.

Article 9 contains transitional provisions and savings.

An impact assessment has been prepared in relation to this Order. The assessment has been placed in the Library of each House of Parliament and copies may be obtained from the Department for Communities and Local Government, Eland House, Bressenden Place, London SW1E 5DU (Telephone [phone]).