Chapter 4: Grant and Implementation of Planning Permission 93H Completion notices
As set out in subsection (1), new section 93H gives a power to local planning authorities to serve a completion notice on grants of planning permission for development which have commenced, but which in their opinion will not be completed in a reasonable period as set out in subsection (2). A completion notice will set out a time limit ("completion notice deadline") after which planning permission will cease to have effect for any unfinished parts of the development.
	Subsection (3) provides that the completion notice deadline must be at least 12 months after the notice was served and, where planning permission was granted subject to a condition requiring development to have begun by a particular period, at least 12 months after the end of that period.
	Subsection (4) sets out what must be included in a completion notice, while subsection (5) sets out who must be served a completion notice by a local planning authority where the authority chooses to serve a notice.
	Subsections (6) and (7) establish that a completion notice can be withdrawn by a local planning authority and that, when doing so, the authority must immediately notify all those who were served the notice.
	Under subsection (8), the Secretary of State may serve a completion notice where it appears expedient to do so, after having consulted the relevant local planning authority.