Town and Regional Planning Act, 1934

PART VII.

Permission and Prohibition of Erection, etc., of Structures.

Control of constructive and other work for planning scheme.

57.—(1) When a planning authority has passed a resolution for the making of a planning scheme such planning authority may, at any time after passing such resolution and before such planning scheme comes into operation, do all or any of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) grant to any person applying therefor permission in writing to construct, demolish, alter, extend, repair, or renew a particular structure in the area to which such planning scheme is proposed to relate;

(b) grant, either on the application of some person interested or without any such application, a permission applicable to the whole of the said area or to a particular part thereof only for the construction, demolition, alteration, extension, repair, or renewal of structures of a particular class or classes;

(c) prohibit the further proceeding with the construction, demolition, alteration, extension, repair, or renewal of any particular structure situate in the said area.

(2) A planning authority may attach to a permission granted under this section such (if any) conditions as they think proper and specify in such permission.

(3) A planning authority may at any time revoke or amend a general permission previously granted by such authority, but such revocation or amendment shall not prejudice or affect the validity of such general permission during any period prior to such revocation or amendment.

(4) A special prohibition made by a planning authority may either (as such planning authority shall think proper) prohibit absolutely the further proceeding with the work to which such special prohibition relates or prohibit the further proceeding with such work otherwise than under and in accordance with conditions specified in such special prohibition.

(5) A special prohibition may be made by a planning authority notwithstanding that the work to which such special prohibition relates is, at the date of the making of such special prohibition, within the permission afforded by a general permission previously granted by such planning authority.

(6) Where an application is duly made to a planning authority for a special permission or a general permission under this section and no decision on such application is made by such planning authority within two months after the date of such application, such application shall be deemed for all purposes to have been granted by such planning authority at the expiration of the said period of two months.