PART 2Applications

General provisions relating to applications8.

(1)

When the local planning authority receive—

(a)

an application which complies with the requirements of article 4 or article 5, as the case may be;

(b)

where an application is made in respect of Crown land, the documents required by article 6;

(c)

in a case to which article 7 applies, the design and access statement or the access statement as the case may be;

(d)

in a case to which article 9 applies, the written declaration required by that article;

(e)

the certificate required by article 11;

(f)

subject to paragraph (2), the particulars or evidence required by the authority under section 62(3) of the 1990 Act (applications for planning permission)12; and

(g)

any fee required to be paid in respect of the application,

the authority must, as soon as is reasonably practicable, send to the applicant an acknowledgement of the application in the terms (or substantially in the terms) set out in Schedule 1.

(2)

Paragraph (1)(f) only applies if—

(a)

the application is for major development; and

(b)

before the application is made the local planning authority publish a list of requirements on their website for the purposes of article 22(3); and

(c)

the particulars or evidence that the authority require to be included in the application fall within that list.

(3)

Where, after sending an acknowledgement as required by paragraph (1), the local planning authority consider that the application is invalid, they must as soon as reasonably practicable notify the applicant that the application is invalid.

(4)

In this article an application is invalid if it is not a valid application within the meaning of article 22(3).