The Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Determination of applications by the council

11.—(1) Where an application for express consent is made to the council it may—

(a) refuse consent; or

(b) subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), grant consent, in whole or in part, subject to the standard conditions and to such additional conditions as it thinks fit.

(2) An express consent may be granted—

(a) for the display of a particular advertisement or advertisements with or without illumination;

(b) for the use of a particular site for the display of advertisements in a specified manner, whether by reference to the number, siting, dimensions or illumination of the advertisements, or the structures intended for such display, or the design or appearance of any such structure; or

(c) for the retention of any display of advertisements or the continuation of the use of a site, begun before the date of application.

(3) The conditions imposed under paragraph (1)(b) may in particular include conditions—

(a) regulating the display of advertisements to which the consent relates;

(b) regulating for the display of advertisements the use of the site to which the application relates or any adjacent land under the control of the applicant, or requiring the carrying out of works on any such land;

(c) requiring the removal of any advertisement or the discontinuance of any use of land authorised by the consent, at the end of a specified period, and the carrying out of any works then required for the reinstatement of the land.

(4) The council shall not, under paragraph (1)(b), impose any conditions in relation to the display of an advertisement within any class specified in Part 1 of Schedule 3, more restrictive than those imposed by that part in relation to that class.