{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compulsory-purchase-act-2004/section-15LH",
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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/15LH",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15LH",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This section has effect for the purposes of this Part.\n(2) Each of the following is a relevant plan-making authority—\n(a) the Mayor of London;\n(b) a local planning authority;\n(c) a minerals and waste planning authority.\n(3) In this Part (unless a contrary intention appears)—\n“affordable housing” means—\n(a)social housing within the meaning of Part 2 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008, and\n(b)any other description of housing that may be prescribed;\n“constituent authority”, in relation to a joint committee, must be construed in accordance with section 15J(3);\n“joint local plan” must be construed in accordance with section 15I(1);\n“joint local plan agreement” must be construed in accordance with section 15I(2);\n“joint local plan direction” must be construed in accordance with section 15I(3);\n“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);\n“joint supplementary plan” must be construed in accordance with section 15IC;\n“local nature recovery strategy” means a local nature recovery strategy under section 104 of the Environment Act 2021;\n“local plan” must be construed in accordance with section 15C;\n“local plan timetable” must be construed in accordance with section 15B;\n“local planning authority” must be construed in accordance with section 15LF;\n“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);\n“minerals and waste plan” must be construed in accordance with section 15CB;\n“minerals and waste plan timetable” must be construed in accordance with section 15BB;\n“minerals and waste planning authority” must be construed in accordance with section 15LG;\n“neighbourhood priorities statement” must be construed in accordance with section 15K;\n“relevant area” must be construed in accordance with section 15LG;\n“relevant plan-making authority” must be construed in accordance with subsection (2);\n“spatial development strategy” means (except in the context of more specific expressions)—\n(a)the spatial development strategy for London,\n(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\n(c)a joint spatial development strategy;\n“spatial development strategy for London” means the strategy adopted by the Mayor of London under Part 8 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999;\n“supplementary plan” must be construed in accordance with section 15CC.",
  "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": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2025/34",
      "affecting_title": "Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2025/34",
      "affecting_title": "Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/5/section/15LH",
    "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."
}