{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compulsory-purchase-act-2004/section-15LG",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compulsory-purchase-act-2004/section-15LG.json",
  "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/15LG",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15LG",
  "heading": "Meaning of “minerals and waste planning authority” etc",
  "text": "(1) This section has effect for the purposes of this Part.\n(2) Subject to subsection (3)—\n(a) a county council in England is the minerals and waste planning authority for their area,\n(b) a London borough council is the minerals and waste planning authority for their area,\n(c) a metropolitan district council is the minerals and waste planning authority for their area, and\n(d) a district council is the minerals and waste planning authority for any part of their area for which there is no county council.\n(3) A National Park authority is the minerals and waste planning authority for the whole of its area, in place of any authority who would otherwise be a minerals and waste planning authority for any part of that area under subsection (2).\n(4) Where a relevant order provides that a development corporation is to be the minerals and waste planning authority for an area for some or all purposes of this Part, the development corporation is the minerals and waste planning authority for that area and those purposes in place of any authority who would otherwise be the minerals and waste planning authority for that area and those purposes.\n(5) In subsection (4)—\n“development corporation” means an urban development corporation, a development corporation established under the New Towns Act 1981 or a Mayoral development corporation;\n“relevant order”—\n(a)in relation to an urban development corporation, means an order under section 149(2A) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980;\n(b)in relation to a development corporation established under the New Towns Act 1981, means an order under section 7A(6) of that Act;\n(c)in relation to a Mayoral development corporation, means an order under section 198(2) of the Localism Act 2011.\n(6) “Relevant area”, in relation to a minerals and waste planning authority, means the area for which the authority are the minerals and waste planning authority in accordance with this section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/5/section/15LG",
    "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."
}