Schedule 1, Paragraph 27: Part 6, Chapter 5: Decisions on applications Section 107: Timetable for decisions
190.This section specifies that the decision-maker is under a duty to decide an application for a development consent order within a period of three months. This period starts from the end of the examination (if the decision-maker is the Panel or Council), from the day the Secretary of State receives the Commission’s report (if the decision-maker is the Secretary of State by virtue of section 103(1)) or from the deadline for completion of the Secretary of State’s examination of the application under section 113(2)(a) (if the decision-maker is the Secretary of State by virtue of section 113(2)(b)). Subsection (3) allows the appropriate authority to extend this deadline.