Explanatory note

The Wolverhampton Urban Development Area Order 1988 designates the Wolverhampton urban development area and provides for the functions of an urban development corporation for the area to be performed by the Black Country Development Corporation.

This Order makes that corporation the local planning authority for the Wolverhampton urban development area for all the purposes of Part III (general planning control) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 (article 3(a)), and for those purposes which are specified in Part I of Schedule 29 to the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 which deal with additional control in special cases, enforcement of control, listed buildings and conservation areas (article 3(b)).

The Order applies other provisions of the 1971 Act specified in Part II of Schedule 29 to the 1980 Act to the area subject to the modifications set out in that Part (article 4).

Provision is made for the former local planning authority to determine planning applications received by it prior to the date on which this Order comes into force or with the applicant’s agreement to transmit them to the corporation for determination (article 5). A second transitional provision (article 6) leaves responsibility for the payment of compensation under Part VIII of the 1971 Act with the former local planning authority whose action gave rise to a right to compensation.