'Referral of applications to the Secretary of State

Orders of the Day — Planning and Compensation Bill [Lords] – in the House of Commons am 8:30 pm ar 19 Mehefin 1991.

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`(3) After section 74(1) of the principal Act (provisions that may be made by a development order for dealing with planning applications) there is inserted——1"(1A) Any development order made under this section shall specify that a local planning authority shall not grant planning permission for an application which relates to development—

  1. (a) which the local planning authority consider would materially conflict with or prejudice the implementation of any of the policies or general proposals of the development plan or that of an adjoining local planning authority; or
  2. (b) which the structure plan authority consider would materially conflict with or prejudice the implementation of any of the policies or general proposals of the structure plan;
unless they have notified the Secretary of State of the application for planning permission, along with a statement of the issues involved, and either—
  1. (a) a period of twenty-eight days has expired, beginning with the date of the notification, without the Secretary of State having directed the reference of the application to him or given notice that he requires extra time to consider whether to require reference of the application to him; or
  2. (b) the Secretary of State has notified the authority that he does not intend to require the reference of the application to him.".'.

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With this, it will be convenient to consider amendment No. 115, in page 25, line 51 at end insert—