MORE THAN ONE PLANNING CONSENT BUT ONLY ONE PROPERTY

An owner may wish to carry out one of many options of development to a house or to land.  Gaining planning consent can be a time consuming business and it may be that one of the options contemplated may be refused planning permission, in which case the whole process of seeking planning permission for the second preferred option commences again and so on with the third etc.  To avoid what could amount to a considerable delay and possible lost opportunity, the owner can submit planning applications for as many options as required and they can all be submitted at the same time.  This principle was underlined in the celebrated case of Pilkington v Secretary of State for the Environment.  Permission could be granted for any number of the options and in those circumstances it would be at the applicant’s discretion as to which option was acted upon.

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PLANNING ISSUES

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