Section 155 — Housing and Planning Act 2016: Local planning authorities: information about financial benefits

Local planning authorities: information about financial benefits 155 After section 75 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 insert— Information in planning reports for local planning authorities Information about financial benefits 75ZA 1 A local planning authority in England must make arrangements to ensure that the required financial benefits information is included in each report which—

a is made by an officer or agent of the authority for the purposes of a non-delegated determination of an application for planning permission, and b contains a recommendation as to how the authority should determine the application in accordance with section 70(2).

2 The required financial benefits information is—

a a list of any financial benefits (whether or not material to the application) which are local finance considerations or benefits of a prescribed description, and which appear to the person making the report to be likely to be obtained—

i by the authority, or ii by a person of a prescribed description or (if regulations so provide) by any person, as a result of the proposed development (if it is carried out);

b in relation to each listed financial benefit, a statement of the opinion of the person making the report as to whether the benefit is material to the application;

c any other prescribed information about a listed financial benefit.

3 In this section— “ local finance consideration ” has the same meaning as in section 70; “ non-delegated determination ” means a determination that is not delegated to an officer of the authority in question; “ officer ” includes employee.

4 Regulations under this section may—

a prescribe a description of financial benefits by reference to the amount or value of the benefit;

b make different provision for different kinds of local planning authority or different kinds of development.