The Planning (General Permitted Development) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015

Notices relating to Article 4 directions

5.—(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (3) notice of any direction made or approved by the Department under Article 4 shall be served by the council on the owner and occupier of every part of the land affected, and such direction shall come into force in respect of any part of the land on the date on which the notice is served on the occupier of that part or if there is no occupier, on the owner.

(2) Where the Department thinks fit it may serve notice in accordance with paragraph (1) of any direction given under Article 4(1)(b) in which case the council shall not be required to serve notice.

(3) Where in the case of a direction under Article 4(1)(a) the council is of the opinion that having regard to the number of persons interested in the land as owners or occupiers, or the difficulty of identifying and locating such persons, individual service in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1) is impracticable, it shall publish notice of such direction in at least one newspaper circulating in the locality in which the land is situated and, where the council maintains a website for the purpose of advertisement, by publication of the notice on the website.

(4) Where the Department thinks fit it may publish notice in accordance with paragraph (3) of any direction given under Article 4(1)(a) in which case the council shall not be required to publish such notice.

(5) A notice published pursuant to paragraph (3) shall contain a concise statement of the effect of the direction and name a place where a copy of that statement and of a map defining the area to which it relates may be seen at all reasonable hours.

(6) Where a notice of a direction has been published in accordance with paragraph (3), the direction shall come into force on the date on which the notice is first published.