Explanatory note

The Liverpool and Wirral Urban Development Area Order 1988 designates the Liverpool and Wirral urban development area and provides for the functions of an urban development corporation for the area to be performed by the Merseyside Development

This Order makes that corporation the local planning authority for the Liverpool and Wirral 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 authorities to determine applications received by them 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; the former authorities cannot, however, determine any such application for development which is subject to a direction under article 10 of the Town and Country Planning General Development Order 1977 (article 5). A second transitional provision (article 6) leaves responsibility for the payment of compensation under Part VIII of the 1971 Act with the local planning authority who took the action giving rise to a right to compensation.