The Town and Country Planning (Brownfield Land Register) Regulations 2017

Publicity of proposal to enter land in Part 2

6.—(1) A local planning authority must publicise their proposal to enter land in Part 2 by giving requisite notice in at least one place on or near the land for not less than 21 days.

(2) The requisite notice must be given by posting it by firm fixture to some object and the notice must be sited and displayed in such a way as to be easily visible to and legible by members of the public.

(3) Where the notice is, without any fault or intention of the local planning authority, removed, obscured or defaced before the period of 21 days referred to in paragraph (1) has elapsed, the authority are to be treated as having complied with the requirement if they have taken reasonable steps for protection of the notice, and, if need be, its replacement.

(4) The following information must be published on a website maintained by the local planning authority—

(a) the statement “If the land is entered in Part 2 of the Brownfield Land Register it will be granted permission in ‎principle, which establishes the suitability, in principle, of land for housing-led development” or a statement to substantially the same effect; ‎

(b) the information required by paragraphs 1(1)(a), (b), (c), (f), (k), (l), (m)(ii) and (o) of Schedule 2;

(c) the information required under regulation 26 of the Planning (Hazardous Substances) Regulations 2015(1) (planning approvals for projects related to hazardous substances) where—

(i) development of the land would, in the opinion of the local planning authority, be a relevant project for the purpose of that regulation‎, and

(ii) the local planning authority are the competent authority for the purpose of that regulation;

(d) the date by which any representations about the proposed entry of the land in Part 2 must be made, which must not be before the last day of the period of 14 days beginning with the date on which the information is published;

(e) where and when the information specified in sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) of this paragraph may be inspected; and

(f) how representations may be made about the proposed entry of the land in Part 2.

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S.I. 2015/627 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.