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This Order amends the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/595 “the 2015 Orders”) to add a new statutory consultee Active Travel England, into the Table in Schedule 4.
Schedule 4 to the 2015 Order makes provision for local planning authorities and the Secretary of State to consult certain authorities or persons falling within a category set out in the Table in that Schedule before issuing a grant of planning permission.
The amendments made by article 2 amend Schedule 4 to the 2015 Order to provide that local planning authorities and the Secretary of State must consult Active Travel England before issuing a grant of planning permission where development falls within any of the following descriptions: a) the number of dwellings is 150 or more; or b) the provisions of a building or buildings where the use is not exclusively for the provision of dwellings, and the floor space to be created by the development is 7,500 square metres of internal floor space or more; or c) development carried out on a site having an area of 5 hectares or more.
An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary, or public or sector is foreseen. An explanatory memorandum has been produced alongside this instrument at www.legislation.gov.uk.
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