As a result LRCH's formal planning application will be submitted in the autumn of 2015 to the Planning Inspectorate, a government executive agency, rather than the local authority in Kent.
Both councils have been approached over the redevelopment, although no formal planning applications have been submitted.
In many cases formal planning permission will no longer be required for minor home improvements in England.
The University of Gloucestershire is about to submit a formal planning application to build an 800-bed student village near Cheltenham racecourse.
Construction was delayed, but as the apartment was finally completed it was declared an "illegal build" as it didn't have formal planning permission.
Cumbersome and costly it may be, but such formal planning is needed for pupils with serious problems like Down syndrome or severe autism.
There are two existing international "interconnector" cables from Britain, to France and the Netherlands, but nine more are either in construction, in formal planning or undergoing feasibility studies.
Among the celebrated examples of the formal planning of McKim are the Boston Public Library (1887) and in New York City the Columbia University Library (1893), the University Club (1899), the Morgan Library (1903), and Pennsylvania Station (1904 10; demolished).
"The project will deliver 216 new homes, of which 11% will be affordable as approved and adopted by the formal planning process which took into account the wider area when giving consideration to the requirement for affordable homes.
The continuing problems for A&E came as NHS leaders issued formal planning guidance on priorities from April following their settling this week of funding allocations of the £101.7bn national budget.
But it added: "The BBC has recognised that the absence of a formal documented control framework or a formal planning procedure may have exposed the BBC to unnecessary risks".
