The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (Wales) Order 2012

PART 8 E+W General

Directions E+W

31.  Any power conferred by this Order to give a direction includes power to cancel or vary the direction by a subsequent direction.

Use of electronic communications E+W

32.—(1) Where an application is made using electronic communications, the applicant is taken to have agreed—

(a) to the use of such communications by the authority for the purposes of the application;

(b) that the applicant's address for those purposes is the address incorporated into, or otherwise logically associated with, the application; and

(c) that the applicant's deemed agreement under this paragraph will subsist until the applicant gives notice in writing of the withdrawal of consent to the use of electronic communications under paragraph (2).

(2) Where a person is no longer willing to accept the use of electronic communications for any purpose of this Order which is capable of being carried out electronically, that person must give notice in writing—

(a) withdrawing any address notified to the Welsh Ministers or to a local planning authority for that purpose; or

(b) revoking any agreement entered into or deemed to have been entered into with the Welsh Ministers or with a local planning authority for that purpose,

and such withdrawal or revocation will be final and will take effect on a date specified by the person in the notice but not less than seven days after the date on which the notice is given.

Revocations, transitional provisions and savings E+W

33.—(1) The statutory instruments specified in the first column of the Table in Schedule 8 are revoked to the extent specified in the corresponding row of the third column of the Table.

(2) In respect of any application for planning permission, consent, agreement or approval made before 1 November 2011—

(a) articles 26 (appeals) and 29 (register of applications and local development orders) and Schedule 5 (notification where planning permission refused or granted subject to conditions) do not apply; and

(b) articles 23 (appeals) and 25 (register of applications) of, and Part 2 of Schedule 1 (notification to be sent to applicant on refusal of planning permission or on the grant of permission subject to conditions) to, the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995 M1 apply as those provisions applied immediately prior to 1 November 2011.

(3) In respect of any application for planning permission made before 30 April 2012—

(a) article 12 (publicity for applications for planning permission) does not apply; and

(b) article 8 of the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995 (publicity for applications for planning permission) M2 applies as that provision applied immediately prior to 30 April 2012.

Marginal Citations

M1 Relevant amendments were made by S.I. 1996/525, 2004/1434, 2004/3156, 2006/1386, 2006/3390 and 2009/1024.

M2 Relevant amendments were made by S.I. 1999/293 and 2006/1386.