{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-changes-transitional-arrangements-no2-regulations-2008/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-changes-transitional-arrangements-no2-regulations-2008/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2867",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Transitional Arrangements) (No.2) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-changes-transitional-arrangements-no2-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Plans",
  "text": "(1) Any of the following documents or plans adopted by a predecessor council, or approved under the 2004 Act, before the reorganisation date, have effect on and after that date as if it had been adopted by that council’s related planning successor, or approved for such part of its area as corresponds to the area to which the document or plan relates—\n(a) a document which is to be or form part of a minerals and waste plan;\n(b) a local development document;\n(c) a local plan;\n(d) a supplementary plan.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Nothing in paragraph (1) affects any power of the Secretary of State to revoke , or the related planning successor to revise a document or plan to which paragraph (1) relates.\n(4) A single tier council must adopt a local plan and the document or documents which are to form their minerals and waste plan under section 15EA of the 2004 Act to apply to the whole of its area within a period of five years starting with the reorganisation date.\n(5) On or after the reorganisation date and prior to adoption of a plan and adoption of a document or documents to apply to the whole of its area as required by paragraph (4) a single tier council may revise or replace a document or plan referred to in paragraph (1) for a part of its area which was the area of a predecessor council.\n(6) In revising or replacing a document or plan in accordance with paragraph (5), a single tier council may adopt, with or without modification, a document or plan which was prepared but not adopted by a predecessor council before the reorganisation date.\n(7) Where—\n(a) a predecessor council has not before the reorganisation date prepared or adopted a local development document under section 23 of the 2004 Act , a document which is to be or form part of a minerals and waste plan, a local plan or a supplementary plan under section 15EA of the 2004 Act; and\n(b) the single tier council has not yet adopted such a document or plan for the whole of its area as required by paragraph (4),\nthe single tier council may prepare and adopt such a document or plan for the part of its area which was the area of the predecessor council.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 19(1) substituted (25.3.2026) by The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Local Planning) (Modification and Consequential Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/170), regs. 1(2), 10(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 19(2) omitted (5.9.2018) by virtue of The Local Government (Structural Changes) (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/930), regs. 1, 5(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(3) inserted (25.3.2026) by The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Local Planning) (Modification and Consequential Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/170), regs. 1(2), 10(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 19(4)-(7) inserted (5.9.2018) by The Local Government (Structural Changes) (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/930), regs. 1, 5(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(4) substituted (25.3.2026) by The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Local Planning) (Modification and Consequential Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/170), regs. 1(2), 10(3)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(5) substituted (25.3.2026) by The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Local Planning) (Modification and Consequential Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/170), regs. 1(2), 10(3)(e)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(5) inserted (25.3.2026) by The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Local Planning) (Modification and Consequential Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/170), regs. 1(2), 10(3)(e)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(6) inserted (25.3.2026) by The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Local Planning) (Modification and Consequential Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/170), regs. 1(2), 10(3)(f)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(6) substituted (25.3.2026) by The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Local Planning) (Modification and Consequential Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/170), regs. 1(2), 10(3)(f)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(7)(a) inserted (25.3.2026) by The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Local Planning) (Modification and Consequential Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/170), regs. 1(2), 10(3)(g)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(7)(b) inserted (25.3.2026) by The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Local Planning) (Modification and Consequential Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/170), regs. 1(2), 10(3)(g)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(7) inserted (25.3.2026) by The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Local Planning) (Modification and Consequential Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/170), regs. 1(2), 10(3)(g)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Reg. 19 heading substituted (25.3.2026) by The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Local Planning) (Modification and Consequential Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/170), regs. 1(2), 10(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 19 in force at 28.11.2008, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See sections 25 and 26 of the 2004 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2867/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:22:21.760937+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}