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Commencement Notice - Intention to Start Work

After your planning permission is granted, you MUST complete a mandatory Commencement Notice at least 7 days prior to commencing the development to let us know when you intend to start work.

 COMMENCMENT NOTICE – INTENTION TO START WORK

Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended)

 Section 93G of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, which can be accessed by the following link: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/8/section/93G

 Under paragraph 10 of Section 93G, the LPA are required to “by notice inform the applicant of:

  •  the requirements of subsections (2) and (3)(b), and
  • the consequences of non-compliance with those requirements”

 (2) Before the development is begun, the person proposing to carry it out must give a notice (a “commencement notice”) to the local planning authority specifying the date on which the person expects the development to be begun.

 (3) Once a person has given a commencement notice, the person—

  •  may give a further commencement notice substituting a new date for the date previously given, and
  •  must do so if the development is not commenced on the date previously given.

 Failure to provide the commencement notice could lead to the LPA serving notice on them to require information to be provided, and if that is not provided within 21 days, they will be guilty of an offence, as below:

 (5) Where it appears to the local planning authority that a person has failed to comply with the requirements of subsection (2) or (3)(b), they may serve a notice on any relevant person requiring the relevant person to give the authority such of the information prescribed under subsection (4)(a) as the notice may specify.

 (7) A person on whom a notice under subsection (5) is served is guilty of an offence if they fail to give the information required by the notice within the period of 21 days beginning with the day on which it was served.

 (9) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (7) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

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