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Displaying 441 - 445 of 782Town and Country Planning General (Amendment) (England) Regulations 1997 (S.I. No. 3006 of 1997).
These Regulations amend, in relation to England and Wales, regulations 14 of the Town and Country Planning General Regulations 1992 in relation to expenses for the recovery of land, which is in a condition adversely affecting the amenity of a neighbourhood. Under section 215 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, a local planning authority may in certain circumstances serve a notice on the owner and occupier of such land, requiring steps to be taken within a specified period to remedy its condition.
Public Path Orders Regulations 1993 (S.I. No. 11 of 1993).
These Regulations, also made under the Acquisition of Land Act 1981, provide a new regime for public path creation orders, public path diversion orders and public path extinguishment orders made under sections 26, 119 and 118 respectively of the Highways Act 1980, and for orders made under section 32 of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 extinguishing non-vehicular rights of way. The Regulations prescribe forms and procedures for orders, and also provides for concurrent proceedings preliminary to confirmation to be taken in the case of specified orders.
Town and Country Planning General Regulations 1992 (S.I. No. 1492 of 1992).
These Regulations apply Parts III, VII and VIII of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 with modifications to: (a) land in which a local planning authority has any interest and in relation to which the authority exercises any of the functions of a local planning authority, and (b) the development of any land by a local planning authority exercising any of the functions of a local planning authority in relation to that land, whether the development is by the authority alone, or jointly with any other person, except in certain situations mentioned.
Town and Country Planning General (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2013 (S.I. No. 2145 of 2013).
These Regulations amend, in relation to England, the Town and Country Planning General Regulations 1992, by making provision for the Secretary of State to determine applications for planning permission made by an interested local planning authority for the development of land which relates solely to the demolition of an unlisted building in a conservation area and provide for the procedure to be followed on such applications.
Amends: Town and Country Planning General Regulations 1992 (S.I. No. 1492 of 1992). (1992-06-24)
Town and Country Planning General (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 1589 of 2011).
These Regulations amend, in relation to England, the Town and Country Planning General Regulations 1992 by excluding from the working of regulation 9 of the principal Regulations interested planning authorities which are urban development corporations. Regulation 9 provides that where an interested planning authority grants itself planning permission for its own development, the permission enures only for the benefit of the authority or, in the case of joint development, the authority and the other person specified in the application for planning permission as the joint developer.