Part 2Crown development applications

Chapter 1Applications and publicity

Publicity for applications: introductory

15.  For the purposes of articles 16 and 17—

(a)a “special development application” means an application for planning permission which—

(i)is an EIA application which is accompanied by an environmental statement,

(ii)is in respect of development which does not accord with the provisions of the development plan in force in the area in which the land to which the application relates is situated, or

(iii)is in respect of development which would affect a right of way to which Part 3 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981(1) (public rights of way) applies,

(b)a “standard major development application” means an application for planning permission in respect of major development which is not a special development application,

(c)a “standard non-major development application” means an application in respect of non-major development which is not a special development application,

(d)references to a “Crown development application” do not include an application for approval of reserved matters, and

(e)the “requisite notice”, in relation to an application, means a notice in the appropriate form set out in Schedule 2 or in a form substantially to the same effect.