Advice to BNP Paribas

Enquiry

• From: BNP Paribas
• Date advice given: 27 October 2011
• Enquiry type: Phone

The IPC was telephoned by BNP Paribas, to enquire about statutory timescales for the development consent process.

Our response was by email.

Advice given

Thank you for your telephone enquiry today asking for timescales for applications under the development consent regime, including statutory deadlines.

The development consent process under the Planning Act 2008 broadly follows six stages: (non-statutory) (circa) 2 years ‘pre-application’; (statutory) 28 days ‘acceptance’; (non-statutory) (circa) 3 months ‘pre-examination’; (statutory) 6 months for ‘examination’; (statutory) 3+3 months for ‘recommend/decision’; (statutory) 6 week window ‘post decision’.

For further information on the application process, please consult the Planning Act 2008, as well as CLG statutory guidance, in particular ‘Planning Act 2008: guidance for the examination of applications for development consent for nationally significant infrastructure projects’, as well as ‘The Infrastructure Planning (Examination Procedure) Rules 2010’. For ‘acceptance’, I refer you to s.55 of the Planning Act 2008, as well as Part 6, Chapter 1-4 for ‘pre-examination’, and Part 6, Chapter 5 for ‘decision’. You may also wish to refer to s.118 of the Act 2008 for ‘post decision’. Further Advice Notes in regard to the application process can be found on the IPC website.

I hope this information has been of some help. While the IPC aims to provide advice and assistance to interested parties about the application process, we also recommend such persons, in particular potential developers and their advisors, to seek their own legal advice upon which they can rely.