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Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006

Section 20 – Duration of planning permission and listed building consent etc.

114.Subsections (1) and (2) amend section 58 of the 1997 Act (which is re-entitled “Duration of planning permission”). In section 58, subsections (1) to (3) are substituted by new subsections (1) to (3A). Under the new subsections a planning permission lapses after three years unless the development is begun within that time. The planning authority may under new subsection (2) direct that a different time limit shall apply. In subsection (4) new paragraph (ca) makes it clear that the new version of section 58 does not apply to permissions granted prior to the coming into force of section 20.

115.Subsection (3) makes similar amendments to section 16 of the listed buildings Act.

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