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When a planning permission is granted subject to the standard three-year time limiting condition for implementation, does the three-year period include the day on which the permission is granted or does it begin the next day?

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The wording of section 91(1)(a) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (TCPA 1990) is clear that:

‘…every planning permission granted or deemed to be granted shall be granted or, as the case may be, be deemed to be granted, subject to the condition that the development to which

Jim Ryan
Jim Ryan

Partner, Acuity Law

Jim is an experienced specialist town and country planning lawyer, whose practice also includes compulsory purchase, highway law, rights of way and the law of commons and town and village greens.
 
His early career was spent as an engineering technician in Local Government and then as an infrastructure designer in the housebuilding industry, before reading for a law degree at UWE Bristol and then training with Burges Salmon in Bristol.
 
On qualification in 2001, he joined Burges Salmon’s Planning Team and later spent four and a half years as sole legal counsel to M J Gleeson Group plc, before returning to private practice.
 
Jim is also a Board Trustee with Emmaus, Bristol, a charity helping people out of homelessness.

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