Information in planning reports for local planning authorities

75ZAInformation about financial benefits

1

A local planning authority in England must make arrangements to ensure that the required financial benefits information is included in each report which—

a

is made by an officer or agent of the authority for the purposes of a non-delegated determination of an application for planning permission, and

b

contains a recommendation as to how the authority should determine the application in accordance with section 70(2).

2

The required financial benefits information is—

a

a list of any financial benefits (whether or not material to the application) which are local finance considerations or benefits of a prescribed description, and which appear to the person making the report to be likely to be obtained—

i

by the authority, or

ii

by a person of a prescribed description or (if regulations so provide) by any person,

as a result of the proposed development (if it is carried out);

b

in relation to each listed financial benefit, a statement of the opinion of the person making the report as to whether the benefit is material to the application;

c

any other prescribed information about a listed financial benefit.

3

In this section—

• “local finance consideration” has the same meaning as in section 70;

• “non-delegated determination” means a determination that is not delegated to an officer of the authority in question;

• “officer” includes employee.

4

Regulations under this section may—

a

prescribe a description of financial benefits by reference to the amount or value of the benefit;

b

make different provision for different kinds of local planning authority or different kinds of development.