Planning Permission

(asked on 10th September 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether any mechanism is in place for communities to prevent previously refused planning applications being repeatedly re-submitted in a slightly different form.


Answered by
Brandon Lewis Portrait
Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 17th September 2015

Local planning authorities have powers to decline applications if they have previously refused permission for two or more substantially similar applications on the same site, or if a substantially similar application has been rejected by the Secretary of State on appeal or following call-in, within the past two years. These powers are set out in Sections 70A and 70B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended).

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