http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/72/section/25/enactedTown and Country Planning Act 1968Planning (town and country)Planning applicationsListed buildingsBuilding alterationsStructure plansKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2022-02-03 Town and Country Planning Act 1968specified amended provision(s)The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (Commencement No. 11) Order 2009art. 2commencement order for 2005 c. 4. This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. The Town and Country Planning Act 1968 (c. 72) is held on legislation.gov.uk in pdf format only and it is not possible to revise the textTown and Country Planning Act 1968Blanket AmendmentConstitutional Reform Act 2005Sch. 11 para. 1(2)s. 148(1)art. 2(d) PART III 25 If before or during the determination, whether by the Minister or otherwise, of an appeal under section 23 of the principal Act (appeals against planning decisions) in respect of an application for planning permission to develop land, the Minister forms the opinion that, having regard to the provisions of sections 17(1), 18(1) and 38 of that Act (planning permission and industrial development certificates), of section 1(3) of the Control of Office and Industrial Development Act 1965 (office development permits) and of the development order and to any directions given under that order, planning permission for that development— a could not have been granted by the local planning authority; or b could not have been granted by.them otherwise than subject to the conditions imposed by them, he may decline to determine the appeal or to proceed with the determination or, as the case may be, may direct that the determination shall not be begun or proceeded with. 1965 c. 33.