The Town and Country Planning (Permission in Principle) Order 2017

Statutory Instruments

2017 No. 402

Town And Country Planning, England

The Town and Country Planning (Permission in Principle) Order 2017

Made

20th March 2017

Laid before Parliament

23rd March 2017

Coming into force

15th April 2017

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 59, 59A, 61(1), 62, 65, 70(2ZZC), 71, 71A, 74, 78 and 107(4A) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(1), makes the following Order.

(1)

1990 c. 8; section 59A was inserted by section 150(2) of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22) (“the 2016 Act”); section 62 was substituted by section 42(1) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5) (“the 2004 Act”) and amended by paragraphs 7 and 8 of Schedule 12 to the 2016 Act; section 65 was substituted by section 16(1) of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34) (“the 1991 Act”) and relevant amendments are made by paragraph 9 of Schedule 12 to the 2016 Act; section 70(2ZZC) was inserted by section 150(3) of the 2016 Act; section 71 was amended by section 16 of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 7 to, the 1991 Act and by paragraph 15 of Schedule 12 to the 2016 Act; section 71A was inserted by section 15 of the 1991 Act and amended by paragraph 16 of Schedule 12 to the 2016 Act; section 74 was amended by sections 19(1) and 84(6) of, and paragraph 17 of Schedule 7 and Part 1 of Schedule 19 to, the 1991 Act, paragraph 9 of Schedule 12 to the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20) (“the 2011 Act”) and paragraph 17 of Schedule 12 to the 2016 Act; section 78 was amended by section 17(2) of the 1991 Act, section 43(2) of the 2004 Act, paragraph 7 of Schedule 7 and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 11 to the Planning Act 2008 Act (c. 29), section 123 of the 2011 Act and paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (c. 27) and by paragraph 21 of Schedule 12 to the 2016 Act; and section 107(4A) was inserted by paragraph 28 of Schedule 12 to the 2016 Act.