Town and Country Planning Act 1962

17 Determination by local planning authorities of applications for planning permission

(1) Subject to the provisions of sections fifteen and sixteen of this Act, and to the following provisions of this Part of this Act, where an application is made to a local planning authority for planning permission, that authority, in dealing with the application, shall have regard to the provisions of the development plan, so far as material to the application, and to any other material considerations, and—

(a) may grant planning permission, either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as they think fit, or

(b) may refuse planning permission.

(2) In determining any application for planning permission for development of a class to which section fifteen of this Act applies, the local planning authority shall take into account any representations relating to that application which are received by them before the end of the period of twenty-one days beginning with the date appearing from the evidence accompanying the application to be the date on which notice of the application was published as mentioned in subsection (1) of that section.

(3) Where an application for planning permission is accompanied by such a certificate as is mentioned in paragraph (b), paragraph (c) or paragraph id) of subsection (1) of the last preceding section, or by a certificate containing a statement in accordance with paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of that section, the local planning authority—

(a) in determining the application, shall take into account any representations relating thereto which are made to them, before the end of the period mentioned in subsection (4) of that section, by any person who satisfies them that he is an owner of any land to which the application relates or that he is the tenant of an agricultural holding any part of which is comprised in that land, and

(b) shall give notice of their decision to every person who has made representations which they were required to take into account in accordance with the preceding paragraph.

(4) Before a local planning authority grant planning permission for the use of land as a caravan site, they shall, unless they are also the authority having power to issue a site licence for that land, consult the local authority having that power.

(5) In this section “site licence ” means a licence under Part I of the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act, I960, authorising the use of land as a caravan site.