ABSTRACT
The town and country planning process is regulated by a large number of provisions which seek to impose time-limits within which certain procedural steps are to be taken or rights exercised. Some of these limits are of key importance to the practitioner and must be carefully observed. Others are of a less critical nature, mostly involving action to be taken by the local planning authority (LPA) but which seek to ensure that adequate time is given to interested parties to enable them to express their views on the planning application. Knowledge of these limits is nevertheless important. In this chapter the relevant time-limits are set out in tabular form for ease of reference. The preliminary table below is included, however, in order to give special emphasis to the key time-limits to which reference is most frequently made. (Note: The ‘1990 Act’ is The Town and Country Planning Act 1990; ‘GDPO 1995’ is the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995 SI 1995/419.)
A more detailed account of the time-limits relevant to a planning application and decision of the LPA is given in the table below.
