{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-local-development-plan-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-local-development-plan-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/62",
  "legislation_title": "The Planning (Local Development Plan) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-local-development-plan-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Additional matters to be taken into account",
  "text": "(1) The other matters that the council must take into account in preparing a local development plan are—\n(a) the objectives of preventing major accidents and limiting the consequences of such accidents for human health and the environment ...;\n(b) the need, in the long term—\n(i) to maintain appropriate safety distances between establishments and residential areas, buildings and areas of public use, recreational areas, and, as far as possible, major transport routes;\n(ii) to protect areas of particular natural sensitivity or interest in the vicinity of establishments, where appropriate through appropriate safety distances or other relevant measures;\n(iii) in the case of existing establishments, to take additional technical measures in accordance with regulation 5 of the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 , so as not to increase the risks to human health and the environment.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 14 substituted (16.10.2015) by The Planning (Hazardous Substances) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/344), regs. 1, 28(2) (with reg. 25(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 14(1)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Planning (Environmental Assessments and Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1235), regs. 1(2), 3(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 14(1)(b)(iii) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Planning (Environmental Assessments and Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1235), regs. 1(2), 3(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 14(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Planning (Environmental Assessments and Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1235), regs. 1(2), 3(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/62/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:44.287191+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."
}