# Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, Section 15LH: Interpretation


(1) This section has effect for the purposes of this Part.
(2) Each of the following is a relevant plan-making authority—
(a) the Mayor of London;
(b) a local planning authority;
(c) a minerals and waste planning authority.
(3) In this Part (unless a contrary intention appears)—
“affordable housing” means—
(a)social housing within the meaning of Part 2 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008, and
(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)—
(a)the spatial development strategy for London,
(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
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/5/section/15LH (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compulsory-purchase-act-2004/section-15LH
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