New clause 52 - Planning: Retrospective Applications
Planning and Compulsory Purchase (Re-committed) Bill
10:45 am
No. NC52, to move the following Clause:—
'In section 73A (Planning permission for development already carried out) of the principal Act after subsection (2) there is inserted—
''(2A) An application for planning permission made to a local planning authority under subsection (1) shall be assigned as a retrospective application.
(2B) In considering a retrospective application the local planning authority shall—
(a) consider the application as if work on it had not begun;
(b) have no regard to any financial loss involved to the developers or others should the application not be approved.
(2C) If planning permission is not granted the local planning authority may require that the site be restored so far as practicable to the state that it was in before development commenced.
(2D) In determining any appeal from a refusal to grant planning permission in respect of a retrospective application, the Secretary of State shall be bound by subsections (2A) and (2B) above.''.'.—[Mr. Andrew Turner.]
Brought up, and read the First time.