Part 6

Determination

Directions by the Secretary of State
31
1
The Secretary of State may give directions restricting the grant of permission by a local planning authority, either indefinitely or during such a period as may be specified in the directions, in respect of any development or in respect of development of any class so specified.
2
The Secretary of State may give directions that development, which is both of a description set out in column 1 of the table to Schedule 2 to the 2017 Regulations (descriptions of development and applicable thresholds and criteria for the purposes of the definition of “Schedule 2 development”) and of a class described in the direction, is EIA development for the purposes of those Regulations.
3
A local planning authority must deal with applications for planning permission for development to which a direction given under paragraph (1) or (2) applies, in such manner as to give effect to the direction.
S.I. 2011/1824, amended by S.I. 2012/637, 2013/2140 and 2013/2879.
Word in art. 31(2) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/571), regs. 1(1), 72(4) (with regs. 47, 70)