Explanatory note

The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) was established by the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006 for the purposes set out in section 4 of that Act which includes the purposes of preparing for the London Olympics in 2012.

The Order specifies with the use of maps the development area in respect of which the ODA is given planning functions (article 3). The Order makes the ODA the local planning authority in relation to all kinds of development for the purposes of Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (control over development) (article 4). It also confers on the ODA those functions of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and those functions of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas)Act 1990 which are specified in Part 1 of Schedule 29 to the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (article 5).

The Order applies other provisions of the 1990 Act specified in Part 2 of Schedule 29 to the 1980 Act to the ODA and the development area subject to the modifications set out in that Part (article 6).

Provision is made for the former local planning authority to transmit applications received but not determined by it prior to the date on which this Order comes into force to the ODA for determination (article 7).

Provision is also made to leave responsibility for the payment of compensation under section 107, 108, 115, 186, 203 and 204 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 or sections 28 or 29 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 with the local planning authority who took the action giving rise to the right of compensation (article 8).

Prints of the maps referred to in article 3 of this Order are available for inspection at all reasonable hours in the Library of the Department for Communities and Local Government, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE. The maps are also available at the offices of the London Borough of Hackney, Planning Department, Dorothy Hodgkin House, 12 Reading Lane, London, E8 1HJ; the London Borough of Newham, Development Control, Town Hall Annexe, Barking Road, East Ham, London, E6 6EH; the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Planning Department, Town Hall, Mulberry Place, 5 Clove Crescent, London, E14 2BG; the London Borough of Waltham Forest, Planning and Transportation Service, Chingford Municipal Offices, The Ridgeway, London E4 6PS and the offices of the Olympic Delivery Authority, Planning Committee, 4^th Floor, 11 Burford Road, Stratford, London E15 2ST.

A regulatory impact assessment was prepared in relation to this Order. This assessment has been placed in the library of each House of Parliament and copies may be obtained from Robert Moore, Department of Communities and Local Government, Eland House, Bressenden Place, London SW1E 5DU (Telephone 020 7944 5890).