48.—(1) Where an application is made to the relevant planning authorities or either of them for any consent, agreement or approval required by a Requirement, the following provisions apply, so far as they relate to a consent, agreement or approval of a local planning authority required by a condition imposed on a grant of planning permission, as if the Requirement were a condition imposed on the grant of planning permission—
(a)sections 78 and 79 of the 1990 Act (right of appeal in relation to planning decisions);
(b)the provisions of any orders, rules or regulations that provide in relation to a consent, agreement or approval of a local planning authority required by a condition imposed on the grant of planning permission insofar as those provisions are not inconsistent with the Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2009 and any other orders, rules or regulations made under the 2008 Act.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a provision relates to a consent, agreement or approval of a local planning authority required by a condition imposed on a grant of planning permission in so far as it provides in relation to an application for such a consent, agreement or approval, or the grant or refusal of such an application, or a failure to give notice of a decision on such an application.
(3) For the purposes of the application of section 262 of the 1990 Act (meaning of “statutory undertaker”) to appeals pursuant to this article, the undertaker is deemed to be a holder of a licence under section 6 of the Electricity Act 1989.