The Town and Country Planning (Electronic Communications) (Scotland) Order 2004

Applications for periodic review of mineral planning permissions

8.—(1) Schedule 10 to the 1997 Act (periodic review of mineral planning permissions) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 2 (interpretation), at the end insert–

“(5) Where an electronic communication is used to make an application to a planning authority under paragraphs 5 or 6 below, the applicant shall be deemed to have agreed–

(a) to the use of electronic communication for all purposes relating to the application which are capable of being given effect to using such communications; and

(b) that the applicant’s address for the purpose of such communications is the address incorporated into, or otherwise logically associated with, the application (or such other address as the applicant may notify in writing to the planning authority),

unless the applicant gives notice in writing to the planning authority in accordance with sub-paragraphs (6) and (7).

(6) An applicant may give notice that the applicant no longer agrees to the use of electronic communications for the purposes mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of sub paragraph (5).

(7) Any such notice shall take effect on the date specified in it as the effective date, being a date occurring after the period of seven days, beginning with the date on which the notice is given.”.

(3) In paragraph 6 (application to determine conditions to which mineral permissions are to be subject) in sub paragraph (2)(d), for “an address” substitute “a postal address”.