§ PLANNING CONSULTATIONS
§ 1.—(1) In the case of applications for planning permission of the classes listed in paragraph 2 below the local planning authorities shall consult all the local planning authorities whose areas adjoin its own area.
§ (2) In the case of applications for planning permission of the classes listed in paragraph 4 below the local planning authority shall consult the local planning authorities specified in that paragraph.
§ Consultations with contiguous planning authorities
§ 2. The classes of applications referred to in paragraph 1(1) above are applications relating to—
- (a) any development of land within the Covent Garden Action Area other than a material change of use from any one of the classes V to IX of the Schedule to the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1972 to any other of those classes;
- (b) the erection or material alteration of any building having the capacity to accommodate more than 2,500 persons which is to be used as an exhibition or conference centre, a lecture hall, concert hall or arena, or for any other similar purpose of public assembly;
- (c) the use of land as a ground for sports or games or as a racing track having in such case the capacity to accommodate more than 2,500 spectators;
- (d) the erection of any building or the carrying out of other works for the purposes of the establishment or extension of a railway terminus, a station for public service vehicles, an airways terminal, an airport or a heliport;
- (e) the erection or construction of any building or the carrying out of other works for the purposes of the establishment or
205 extension of any system for the movement of traffic by monorail or hovercraft; - (f) the erection, extension or alteration of a building so as to provide more than 2,025 square metres of floor space (including any existing floor space) to be used as a shop within the meaning of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1972;
- (g) the erection, alteration or extension of a building, or the material change of use of a building, if the development would provide more than 465 square metres of floor space to be used as an industrial building within the meaning of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1972;
- (h) the erection, alteration or extension of a building, or the material change of use of a building, if the development would provide more than 280 square metres of office floor space within the meaning of that term as defined in section 75(3) of the Act;
- (j) development of any of the following classes on land any part of which is within 67 metres of the centre of a relevant road—
- (i) development which includes or involves the making of a new means of access or the alteration of an existing means of access to a relevant road or would, in the opinion of the council dealing with the application, result in a material increase in the use of any existing access to that road;
- (ii) the erection of a building, other than a building which is within the curtilage of an existing building and is to be used for the same purpose as the existing building;
- (iii) the extension of an existing building or the erection, within the curtilage of an existing building, of a building to be used for the same purpose as the existing building, so as to provide, in either case, additional floor space having an area of more than 50 per cent. of the area of floor space in the existing building, or more than 465 square metres, whichever is the less;
- (iv) the extension of an existing building or the erection, within the curtilage of an existing building, of a building to be used for the same purpose as the existing building, so as to provide, in either case, additional floor space of a lesser area than that specified in the last preceding subparagraph, if the development involves building in advance of the line of that main wall of the existing building which is nearest to the relevant road;
- (k) any development of land which, in the opinion of the council dealing with the application, ought to be developed together with adjoining land in order to restrict access to a relevant road or to segregate traffic serving the land which is the subject of the application from through traffic on a relevant road;
- (l) any development which, in the opinion of the council dealing with the application, would result in a material increase in traffic using a relevant road;
- (m) the provision of a public car park for more than fifty cars;
- (n) any development of Green Belt land other than the erection on agricultural land (as defined in the Agriculture Act 1974) of a building requisite for the use of that land for the purposes of agriculture or the alteration of such a building;
- (o) any development of land within 200 metres of the high water mark of the River Thames below Teddington Lock and within 100 metres of the bank of the River Thames above Teddington Lock;
§ 3. For the purposes of paragraph 2(j), (k) and (l) above a "relevant road" means any trunk road in Greater London or any road designated by the Secretary of State under paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 to this Act.
§ Consultations with all local planning authorities in Greater London
§ 4.—(1) The classes of applications and the authorities to be consulted under paragraph 1(2) above are—
- (a) the erection or extension of a building to a height exceeding 39 metres anywhere in Greater London other than in an area which has been specified by the Secretary of State by order under head (b) below;
- (b) the erection or extension of a building to a height exceeding 46 metres in an area in any of the City of London, the City of Westminster, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the London Boroughs of Camden, Hackney, Islington, Southwark, and Tower Hamlets, specified by the Secretary of State by order;
- (c) the extraction of minerals from a site having an area exceeding 2 hectares in Greater London.
§ (2) In the case of a development falling within sub-paragraph (1) above the local planning authority shall consult all other local planning authorities in Greater London.