PART 3PLANNING PERMISSION
CHAPTER 6DEALING WITH APPLICATIONS
Determination of applications and conditions of planning permission
67Grant or refusal of planning permission and imposition of conditions
(1)
On determining an application for planning permission, a planning authority may—
(a)
grant permission subject to the conditions required by this Part and any other conditions the authority considers appropriate, or
(b)
refuse permission.
(2)
The conditions that may be imposed include (for example) conditions—
(a)
regulating the development or use of any land under the control of the applicant (whether or not it is land in respect of which the application was made), or
(b)
requiring works to be carried out on any such land for the purposes of or in connection with the development authorised by the planning permission.
(3)
The conditions that may be imposed also include conditions requiring—
(a)
the removal of buildings or works authorised by the planning permission, or the discontinuance of a use of land authorised by the permission, at the end of a specified period, and
(b)
the carrying out of any works that are required for the restoration of land at the end of that period.
(4)
In this Act “planning permission granted for a limited period” means planning permission granted subject to a condition mentioned in subsection (3).
(5)
In subsection (3)(a) the reference to use of land does not include use for carrying out operations on the land other than mining operations.
(6)
Schedule 3 makes further provision about conditions that may be imposed on the grant of planning permission for development that consists of mining operations or includes the depositing of waste.
(7)
See also—
(a)
Chapter 9 for provision requiring planning permission to be granted subject to conditions relating to the duration and implementation of the permission;
(b)
section 233 for provision requiring a planning authority to impose appropriate conditions relating to the preservation or planting of trees.