8.—(1) This regulation has effect for determining the time at which planning permission is treated as first permitting development for the purposes of Part 11 of PA 2008.
(2) Planning permission first permits development on the day that planning permission is granted for that development.
(3) Paragraph (2) is subject to the following provisions of this regulation.
(4) In the case of a grant of outline planning permission, planning permission first permits development on the day of the final approval of the last reserved matter associated with the permission.
(5) But where the outline planning permission permits development to be implemented in phases, planning permission first permits a phase of the development on the day of the final approval of the last reserved matter associated with that phase.
(6) In the case of a grant of planning permission which—
(a)is not an outline planning permission; and
(b)is subject to a condition requiring further approval to be obtained before development can commence,
planning permission first permits development on the day final approval is given.
(7) In the case of a general consent, planning permission first permits development on the day on which the collecting authority sends an acknowledgment of receipt of a notice of chargeable development submitted to it in respect of that development.