PART IIIEXPRESS CONSENT

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1

An application for express consent shall be made to the local planning authority.

2

Such an application shall be made on a form provided by the local planning authority and give the particulars required by that form. There shall be annexed to the form such plans as the authority require.

3

An applicant shall provide the local planning authority with 2 additional copies of the completed form and the annexed plans.

4

The local planning authority may, if they think fit, accept an application notwithstanding that the requirements of paragraph (2) or (3) above are not complied with, provided the application is in writing.

5

A local planning authority shall not employ a form or require the submission of plans or information inconsistently with any direction which the Secretary of State may have given as to the matter.

6

An application for the renewal of an express consent may not be made at a date earlier than 6 months before the expiry of that consent.