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1

Subject to paragraph (3), where an application under regulation 3 or 4 is made to a local planning authority in respect of any building the authority shall–

a

publish in a local newspaper circulating in the locality in which the building is situated a notice indicating the nature of the works which are the subject of the application and naming a place within the locality where a copy of the application, and of all plans and other documents submitted with it, will be open to inspection by the public at all reasonable hours during the period of 21 days beginning with the date of publication of the notice; and

b

for not less than 7 days display on or near the said building a notice containing the same particulars as are required to be contained in the notice to be published in accordance with sub-paragraph (a).

2

Subject to paragraph (3), an application under regulation 3 or 4 shall not be determined by the local planning authority before both of the following periods have elapsed, namely–

a

the period of 21 days referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) above; and

b

the period of 21 days beginning with the date on which the notice required by sub-paragraph (b) of the said paragraph (1) was first displayed;

and in determining the application the authority shall take into account any representations relating to the application which are received by them before both of those periods have elapsed.

3

Paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply to any application for–

a

listed building consent to carry out works affecting only the interior of a building which when last notified to the authority by the Secretary of State as a building of special architectural or historic interest was classified as a Grade II (unstarred) listed building; or

b

the variation or discharge of conditions attached to a listed building consent in respect of the interior of such a Grade II (unstarred) listed building.