PART 2PRINCIPAL POWERS

Application and modification of legislative provisions9

1

Where an application is made to the local planning authority 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 was a condition imposed on the grant of planning permission—

a

sections 78 (right of appeal in relation to planning decisions) and 79 (determination of appeals) of the 1990 Act15; and

b

any orders, rules or regulations which make provision in relation to a consent, agreement or approval of a local planning authority required by a condition imposed on the grant of planning permission.

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 makes provision 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

Paragraphs (1) and (2) only apply in so far as those provisions are not inconsistent with the 2009 EIA Regulations and any orders, rules or regulations made under the 2008 Act.

4

Article 3 of, and Class B of Part 8 of Schedule 2 to, the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 201516 apply as if this Order were a grant of planning permission and the undertaker were a statutory undertaker in respect of the authorised development.