Schedule 5, Paragraphs 6 and 7: Compensation Part 9, Chapter 2: Other changes to existing planning regimes Section 195: Applications and appeals by statutory undertakers
313.Section 266(1) of TCPA 1990 provides for the Secretary of State and the appropriate Minister to decide jointly certain planning applications and appeals where the application has been made by a statutory undertaker and the case has been referred to the Secretary of State under Part 3 of TCPA 1990. Section 195 disapplies this provision in England except where the Secretary of State or the appropriate Minister gives a direction for section 266(1) to have effect in relation to the relevant application or appeal.