Explanatory note

The Sheffield Develoment Corporation was established by the Sheffield Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1988 for the purpose of regenerating the Sheffield urban development area. This Order makes the corporation the local planning authority for that area for all the purposes of Part III (general planning control) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 (article 3(a)), and for those purposes which are specified in Part I of Schedule 29 to the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 which deal with additional control in special cases, enforcement of control, listed buildings and conservation areas (article 3(b)).

The Order applies other provisions of the 1971 Act specified in Part II of Schedule 29 to the 1980 Act to the corporation and to the area subject to the modifications set out in that Part (article 4).

Provision is made for the former local planning authority to determine applications received by it prior to the date on which this Order comes into force or with the applicant’s agreement to transmit them to the corporation for determination; the former authority cannot, however, determine any such application for development which is subject to a direction under article 10 of the Town and Country Planning General Development Order 1977 (article 5). A second transitional provision (article 6) leaves responsibility for the payment of compensation under Part VIII of the 1971 Act with the local planning authority who took the action giving rise to a right to compensation.