Certificates to accompany applications and appeals6
1
A local planning authority shall not entertain any application under regulation 3 or 4 unless it is accompanied by one or other of the following certificates signed by or on behalf of the applicant, that is to say—
a
a certificate stating that at the beginning of the period of 21 days ending with the date of the application, no person (other than the applicant) was the owner of the building to which the application relates;
b
a certificate stating that the applicant has given the requisite notice of the application to all persons (other than the applicant) who, at the beginning of the period of 21 days ending with the date of the application, were owners of the building to which the application relates, and setting out the names of those persons, the addresses at which notice of the application was given to them respectively, and the date of service of each such notice;
c
a certificate stating that the applicant is unable to issue a certificate in accordance with either of the preceding sub-paragraphs, that he has given the requisite notice of the application to such one or more of the persons mentioned in the last preceding sub- paragraph as are specified in the certificate (setting out their names, the addresses at which notice of the application was given to them respectively, and the date of service of each such notice) that he has taken such steps as are reasonably open to him (specifying them) to ascertain the names and addresses of the remainder of those persons and that he has been unable to do so;
d
a certificate stating that the applicant is unable to issue a certificate in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) above, that he has taken such steps as are reasonably open to him (specifying them) to ascertain the names and addresses of the persons mentioned in sub- paragraph (b) of this paragraph and that he has been unable to do so.
2
Any such certificate as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (c) or sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (1) above shall also contain a statement that the requisite notice of the application, as set out in the certificate, has on a date specified in the certificate (being a date not earlier than the beginning of the period mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1) above) been published in a local newspaper circulating in the locality in which the building is situated.
3
Where an application under regulation 3 or 4 is accompanied by such a certificate as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (b), sub- paragraph (c), or sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (1) above, the local planning authority shall not determine the application before the end of the period of 21 days beginning with the date appearing from the certificate to be the latest of the dates of service of notices as mentioned in the certificate, or the date of publication of a notice as therein mentioned, whichever is the later.
4
Where an application under regulation 3 or 4 is accompanied by such a certificate as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (b), sub- paragraph (c), or sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (1) above, the local planning authority—
a
in determining the application, shall take into account any representations relating thereto which are made to them, before the end of the period mentioned in paragraph (3) above, by any person who satisfies them that he is an owner of the building to which the application relates, and
b
shall give notice of their decision to every person who has made representations which they were required to take into account in accordance with the preceding sub-paragraph.
5
For the purposes of this regulation,“owner” in relation to any building, means a person who is for the time being the estate owner in respect of the fee simple in the building or who is entitled to a tenancy of the building granted or extended for a term of years certain of which not less than seven years remain unexpired.
6
The provisions of this regulation shall apply, with any necessary modifications, where an application under regulation 3 or 4 is referred (or is deemed to have been referred) to the Secretary of State under paragraph 4 of Schedule 11 to the Act or in relation to an appeal to the Secretary of State under paragraph 8 or paragraph 9 of that Schedule as they apply in relation to an application which falls to be determined by the local planning authority.
7
Certificates issued for the purposes of this regulation shall be in the forms set out in Part 1 of Schedule 2 hereto.
8
The requisite notices for the purposes of the provisions of this regulation in relation to applications shall be in the forms set out in Part II of Schedule 2 hereto.
9
The requisite notices for the purposes of the provisions of this regulation in relation to appeals shall be in the forms set out in Part III of Schedule 2 hereto.