PART 3Neighbourhood forums
F1Prescribed date for determination of a neighbourhood forum application9A
1
Where a local planning authority receive a neighbourhood forum application, which they do not decline to consider under regulation 11, the authority must determine the application by the date prescribed in paragraph (2).
2
The date prescribed in this paragraph is—
a
in a case where the neighbourhood area to which the application relates falls within the areas of two or more local planning authorities, the date which is the last day of the period of 20 weeks beginning with the day immediately following that on which the application is first publicised in accordance with regulation 9;
b
in all other cases, the date which is the last day of the period of 13 weeks beginning with the day immediately following that on which the application is first publicised in accordance with regulation 9.
3
The date prescribed in paragraph (2) does not apply where, on that date, the authority are considering another neighbourhood forum application and that other application relates to an area which consists of or includes some or all of the neighbourhood area to which the application mentioned in paragraph (1) relates.