Section 15LH InterpretationF1

This section has effect for the purposes of this Part.

Each of the following is a relevant plan-making authority—

In this Part (unless a contrary intention appears)—

• “affordable housing” means—

  1. (a)

     social housing within the meaning of Part 2 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008, and

  2. (b)

     any other description of housing that may be prescribed;

• “constituent authority”, in relation to a joint committee, must be construed in accordance with section 15J(3);

• “joint local plan” must be construed in accordance with section 15I(1);

• “joint local plan agreement” must be construed in accordance with section 15I(2);

• “joint local plan direction” must be construed in accordance with section 15I(3);

• “joint spatial development strategy” means a strategy adopted by local planning authorities under section 15AD or, as the context requires, a strategy in preparation further to an agreement under section 15A(1);

• “joint supplementary plan” must be construed in accordance with section 15IC;

• “local nature recovery strategy” means a local nature recovery strategy under section 104 of the Environment Act 2021;

• “local plan” must be construed in accordance with section 15C;

• “local plan timetable” must be construed in accordance with section 15B;

• “local planning authority” must be construed in accordance with section 15LF;

• “minerals and waste development” means development which is a county matter within the meaning of paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the principal Act (ignoring sub-paragraph (1)(i) of that paragraph);

• “minerals and waste plan” must be construed in accordance with section 15CB;

• “minerals and waste plan timetable” must be construed in accordance with section 15BB;

• “minerals and waste planning authority” must be construed in accordance with section 15LG;

• “neighbourhood priorities statement” must be construed in accordance with section 15K;

• “relevant area” must be construed in accordance with section 15LG;

• “relevant plan-making authority” must be construed in accordance with subsection (2);

• “spatial development strategy” means (except in the context of more specific expressions)—

  1. (a)

     the spatial development strategy for London,

  2. (b)

     a spatial development strategy adopted by a combined authority established under section 103 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009, or

  3. (c)

     a joint spatial development strategy;

• “spatial development strategy for London” means the strategy adopted by the Mayor of London under Part 8 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999;

• “supplementary plan” must be construed in accordance with section 15CC.