Part IIIControl over development

Duration of planning permission

96Power of Secretary of State to serve completion notices

1

If it appears to the Secretary of State to be expedient that a completion notice should be served in respect of any land, he may himself serve such a notice.

2

A completion notice served by the Secretary of State shall have the same effect as if it had been served by the local planning authority.

3

The Secretary of State shall not serve such a notice without consulting the local planning authority.