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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compulsory-purchase-act-2004/section-15CB",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/5",
  "legislation_title": "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compulsory-purchase-act-2004",
  "path": "section/15CB",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15CB",
  "heading": "Minerals and waste plan",
  "text": "(1) Each minerals and waste planning authority must, in respect of their relevant area, prepare one or more documents which are to be known collectively as their “minerals and waste plan”.\n(2) The minerals and waste plan must set out policies of the minerals and waste planning authority (however expressed) in relation to the amount, type and location of, and timetable for, minerals and waste development, in the relevant area.\n(3) The minerals and waste plan may include—\n(a) other policies (however expressed) in relation to—\n(i) minerals and waste development in the relevant area, which are designed to achieve objectives that relate to the particular characteristics or circumstances of that area, any part of that area or one or more specific sites in that area;\n(ii) development other than minerals and waste development, which are designed to secure that minerals and waste development in the relevant area can take place;\n(b) details of any infrastructure requirements to which minerals and waste development in accordance with the policies, included in the plan under subsection (2) or paragraph (a) of this subsection, would give rise.\n(4) The Secretary of State may prescribe further matters relating to minerals and waste development which the minerals and waste plan may, or must, deal with.\n(5) The minerals and waste plan must be designed to secure that minerals and waste development in the relevant area contributes to the mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change.\n(6) The minerals and waste plan must take account of any local nature recovery strategy that relates to all or part of the relevant area, including in particular—\n(a) the areas identified in the strategy as areas which—\n(i) are, or could become, of particular importance for biodiversity, or\n(ii) are areas where the recovery or enhancement of biodiversity could make a particular contribution to other environmental benefits,\n(b) the priorities set out in the strategy for recovering or enhancing biodiversity, and\n(c) the proposals set out in the strategy as to potential measures relating to those priorities.\n(7) The minerals and waste plan must not—\n(a) include anything that is not permitted or required by or under subsections (2) to (4) or regulations under section 15CA(8)(a) (as applied by subsection (8)), or\n(b) be inconsistent with or (in substance) repeat any national development management policy.\n(8) This Part applies in relation to a minerals and waste plan as it applies in relation to a local plan and for that purpose—\n(a) references to a local plan timetable are to be read as references to a minerals and waste plan timetable,\n(b) references to a local plan are to be read as references to a minerals and waste plan,\n(c) references to a local planning authority are to be read as references to a minerals and waste planning authority, and\n(d) references to a local planning authority’s area are to be read as references to a minerals and waste planning authority’s relevant area.\n(9) Subsection (8) is subject to such modifications of this Part, as it applies in relation to a minerals and waste plan, as may be prescribed.\n(10) Subsection (8) does not apply to—\n(a) sections 15B and 15BA;\n(b) section 15C;\n(c) section 15CC;\n(d) sections 15J to 15JB;\n(e) section 15LB(2);\n(f) sections 15LC(3)(c) and 15LD.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 15A-15LH and cross-headings substituted for ss. 15-37 and cross-heading (3.3.2026 for the purpose of making regulations only, excluding ss. 15A-15AI, 15K and 15LE(2)(a)(b)(c)(k)(l)(3); 25.3.2026 in so far as not already in force for the insertion of ss. 15B(1)(2)(a)(c)-(i)(3)-(12), 15BA-15C, 15CA(1)-(6)(a)-(g)(i)(7)(8), 15CB-15EA, 15G-15HA, 15HC-15JB, 15L-15LD, 15LE(1)(2)(d)-(j)(m)-(p)(3)(4), 15LF-15LG and 15LH (in part), otherwise prosp.) by Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), s. 255(3)(b), Sch. 7 (with s. 247); S.I. 2026/169, regs. 2, 3(b) (with Schs. 1, 2) (as amended by S.I. 2026/333, regs. 1(2), 2)"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/5/section/15CB",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:27.353631+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."
}