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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations )

Regulation 3 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Regulations 1990 (“the 1990 Regulations”) makes provision for applications made to local planning authorities for listed building consent or conservation area consent. Regulation 2(2) of these Regulations amends regulation 3 of the 1990 Regulations to provide for applications to be made on a form published by the Secretary of State and to specify what constitutes a valid application. A minor change is also made to the period within which the local planning authority must give their decision, so that it now starts the day after a valid application is received rather than the day it is received.

Regulation 2(3) makes a consequential amendment to regulation 4(1) of the 1990 Regulations (which provides for applications to vary or discharge conditions attached to listed building or conservation area consents).

Regulation 2(4) amends regulation 6 of the 1990 Regulations to provide for certificates issued under that regulation to be in the form published by the Secretary of State.

Regulation 2(5) makes a consequential revocation.

Regulation 3 contains a transitional provision.

An impact assessment has been prepared in relation to these Regulations. This assessment has been placed in the Library of each House of Parliament and copies may be obtained from PSID, Department for Communities and Local Government, Eland House, Bressenden Place, London SW1E 5DU (Telephone 020 7944 3934).