23 MMO's role in relation to applications for development consent

Chapter 4
Miscellaneous, General and Supplemental Provisions

Applications for development consent

23  MMO's role in relation to applications for development consent

(1)     The Planning Act 2008 (c 29) is amended as set out in subsections (2) to (6).

(2)     In section 42 (duty to consult about proposed applications for orders granting development consent)—

(a)     the existing provision is renumbered as subsection (1);

(b)     in that subsection, after paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa)     the Marine Management Organisation, in any case where the proposed development would affect, or would be likely to affect, any of the areas specified in subsection (2),”;

(c)     after subsection (1) insert—

“(2)     The areas are—

(a)     waters in or adjacent to England up to the seaward limits of the territorial sea;

(b)     an exclusive economic zone, except any part of an exclusive economic zone in relation to which the Scottish Ministers have functions;

(c)     a Renewable Energy

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