Part 1Preliminary
Interpretation
2.—(1) In these Rules—
“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(1);
“the 2025 Order” means the Town and Country Planning (Crown Development Applications) (Procedure and Written Representations) Order 2025(2);
“applicable representation period” has the meaning given in the 2025 Order;
“appointed representative” means a person appointed under section 321(5) or (6) of the 1990 Act(3);
“assessor” means a person appointed by the Secretary of State to sit with an inspector at an inquiry or re-opened inquiry to advise the inspector on such matters arising as the Secretary of State may specify;
“closed evidence” means evidence which is subject to a security direction;
“Crown development application” means an application made under section 293D of the 1990 Act(4);
“document” includes a photograph, map or plan;
“electronic communication” has the meaning given in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000(5);
“inspector” means—
in relation to a standard application, a person appointed by the Secretary of State under section 293I of the 1990 Act(6) to determine the relevant application;
in relation to a recovered application, a person appointed by the Secretary of State to assist him in the consideration of written representations or the holding of a hearing or inquiry;
“land” means the land or building to which the relevant application relates;
“last representation period” has the meaning given in the 2025 Order;
“persons entitled to appear at the hearing” means the persons listed in rule 7(2);
“persons entitled to appear at the inquiry” means the persons listed in rule 19(1);
“recovered application” means a Crown development application which falls to be determined by the Secretary of State as a consequence of a direction given under section 293J(1) of the 1990 Act(7);
“relevant local planning authority” has the meaning given in the 2025 Order;
“re-opened inquiry” means an inquiry which, having been closed, is re-opened to consider any new evidence or any new matter of fact, or following the quashing of the decision following the original inquiry;
“security direction” means a direction given by the Secretary of State under section 321(3) of the 1990 Act;
“standard application” means a Crown development application which falls to be determined by a person appointed by the Secretary of State under section 293I of the 1990 Act;
“starting date” means the date of the notice given by the Secretary of State under rule 13(1);
“statement of case” has the meaning given in rule 13(3);
“statutory party” means a person specified in article 9(1) of the 2025 Order to whom a notice must be sent by the applicant;
“working day” means a day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(8) is a bank holiday in England.
(2) Any reference in these Rules to a Crown development application, a standard application or a recovered application also includes a reference to any connected listed building application (within the meaning of the 2025 Order).
Subsections (5) to (12) of section 321 were inserted by section 80(1) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5).
Section 293D was inserted by section 109(2) of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023.
2000 c. 7. The definition of “electronic communication” was amended by paragraph 158 of Schedule 17 to the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21).
Section 293I was inserted by section 109(2) of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023.
Section 293J(1) was inserted by section 109(2) of the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Act 2023.