Part 6: Planning in England Permission in principle and local registers of land Section 70: new subsections (1A) and (2ZZA) to (2ZZC)
Section 150 of this Act also amends section 70 of the 1990 Act. Section 70 sets out how a local planning authority must determine planning applications. Section 150 inserts new subsection (1A) into section 70, allowing the local planning authority, on receiving an application for permission in principle, to either grant or refuse it. Permission in principle cannot be granted subject to any conditions. A local planning authority may, in granting planning permission at the technical details stage, include such conditions as they consider appropriate.
	Section 150 of this Act also inserts new subsections (2ZZA), (2ZZB) and (2ZZC) into section 70 of the 1990 Act. New subsection (2ZZB) defines technical details consent as an application for planning permission that relates to, and is in accordance with, the permission in principle in force on the land.
	New subsection (2ZZA) provides that in determining an application for technical details consent the local authority is not able to re-open or reconsider the ‘principle of the development’ (which, as expressed above, the Government intends to limit to use, location and amount of housing-led development). It does not mean that permission in principle removes the need for technical details to be considered properly against the National Planning Policy Framework and local policy. Technical details consent may be refused by the local planning authority, if the detail proposed is not acceptable.
	Subsection (2ZZC) provides that the duty to determine a technical details consent in accordance with the permission in principle under section 70(2ZZA) does not apply where a the periods set out in sections 59A(6)(a) and 59A(7)(a) have passed and there has been a material change of circumstance since it was granted.