Local Government Act 1993

The council must, within 28 days after particulars of work are submitted to it in accordance with section 139(2)—

accept the particulars without modification or with such modifications as it thinks fit, or

reject the particulars.

If a council accepts the particulars of work without modification, the council must forthwith order the owner to carry out that work.

If a council accepts the particulars of work with modifications or rejects the particulars, or if an owner fails to submit particulars of work in accordance with section 139(2), the council must—

prepare, within 3 months after the acceptance, rejection or failure, particulars of the work that it considers necessary to make provision for the matters specified in the order referred to in section 139 given to the owner, and

order the owner to carry out that work.

An order under this section is not invalid merely because of the failure of the council to accept or reject any particulars of work or prepare particulars of any work, as the case may be, within the period it is required to do so by this section.

An order under this section forms part of the order under section 124 to which it relates.

A council may recover from an owner as a debt its expenses of preparing particulars of work under this section.