{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/strategic-planning-authorities-spatial-development-strategy-regulations-2026/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/strategic-planning-authorities-spatial-development-strategy-regulations-2026/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/1162",
  "legislation_title": "The Strategic Planning Authorities (Spatial Development Strategy) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/strategic-planning-authorities-spatial-development-strategy-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Consultation",
  "text": "(1) A strategic planning authority must notify the persons specified in paragraph (2) that its draft spatial development strategy has been published on its website.\n(2) The persons referred to in paragraph (1) are—\n(a) Active Travel England;\n(b) any person—\n(i) to whom the electronic communications code applies as a result of a direction given under section 106(3)(a) of the Communications Act 2003, and\n(ii) who owns or controls electronic communications apparatus situated in any part of the strategy area;\n(c) the Canal & River Trust;\n(d) the Civil Aviation Authority;\n(e) the English Sports Council;\n(f) the Environment Agency;\n(g) the Forestry Commission;\n(h) any highways authority for an area that is wholly or partly within the strategy area;\n(i) the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England;\n(j) the Homes and Communities Agency;\n(k) if it exercises functions in any part of the strategy area—\n(i) an integrated care board established under Chapter A3 of Part 2 of the National Health Service Act 2006;\n(ii) a person to whom a licence has been granted under section 6 (1) (b) or (c) of the Electricity Act 1989;\n(iii) a person to whom a licence has been granted under section 7(2) of the Gas Act 1986;\n(iv) a sewerage undertaker appointed under section 6(1) of the Water Industry Act 1991;\n(v) a water undertaker appointed under section 6(1) of the Water Industry Act 1991;\n(l) if the strategic planning authority considers that the draft spatial development strategy is likely to affect its interests—\n(i) the Coal Authority;\n(ii) the Marine Management Organisation;\n(m) any Integrated Transport Authority for an integrated transport area that is wholly or partly within the strategy area;\n(n) any lead local flood authority for an area that is wholly or partly within the strategy area;\n(o) National Highways Limited;\n(p) Natural England;\n(q) a neighbourhood forum for an area that is wholly or partly within the strategy area;\n(r) Network Rail Infrastructure Limited;\n(s) NHS England;\n(t) the Office for Nuclear Regulation;\n(u) the Office of Rail and Road;\n(v) a parish council for an area that is wholly or partly within the strategy area.\n(3) This regulation does not apply in relation to the preparation of an alteration to the spatial development strategy which does not materially affect the policies in the strategy.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Active Travel England is an executive agency of the Department for Transport."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2003 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The Canal & River Trust is a company limited by guarantee (company registration number 07807276) whose registered office is at National Waterways Museum Ellesmere Port, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, CH65 4FW and a registered charity registered with the Charity Commission number 1146792."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "The Civil Aviation Authority was constituted as a body corporate under section 2 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982 (c. 16); section 2 was amended by section 95(1) of the Civil Aviation Act 2012 (c. 19)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "The English Sports Council was established by Royal Charter on 19th September 1996; it operates under the name “Sport England”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "The Environment Agency was established as a body corporate under section 1 of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Section 1(1) of the Forestry Act 1967 (c. 10) provides that the Forestry Commissioners constituted under the Forestry Acts 1919 to 1945 shall continue in existence. They are referred to in the Forestry Act 1967 (c. 10) as “the Commissioners”; subsection (1A) provides that, in that Act, “the appropriate forestry authority” means, in relation to England, the Commissioners; section 1 was amended by section 4 of the Wildlife and Countryside (Amendment) Act 1985 (c. 31); S.I. 2013/755; there are other amendments to section 1 which are not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "The Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England was established by section 32 of the National Heritage Act 1983 (c. 47); it operates under the name “Historic England”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "The Homes and Communities Agency is a body corporate established by section 1 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17); it operates under the name “Homes England”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "2006 c. 41; Chapter A3 was inserted by section 19(2) of the Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "1989 c. 29. Section 6 was substituted by section 30 of the Utilities Act 2000 (c. 27); section 6(1)(b) and (c) were amended by section 136(1) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 23 to, the Energy Act 2004 (c. 20)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "1986 c. 44. Section 7 was substituted by section 5 of the Gas Act 1995 (c. 45); section 7(2) was amended by sections 3(2) and 76(3) of, and paragraph 4 of Schedule 6 to, the Utilities Act 2000 (c. 27) and S.I. 2011/2704."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f13",
      "text": "1991 c. 56. Section 6(1) was amended by section 36(2) of the Water Act 2003 (c. 37)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f14",
      "text": "The Coal Authority was established as a body corporate under section 1 of the Coal Industry Act 1994 (c. 21); it operates under the name “Mining Remediation Authority”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f15",
      "text": "The Marine Management Organisation was established by section 1 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f16",
      "text": "National Highways Limited is a private limited company (company registration number 09346363) whose registered office is at Three Snowhill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham, England, B4 6GA."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f17",
      "text": "Natural England was constituted under section 1 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (c. 16); section 1 was amended by section 311 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f18",
      "text": "Network Rail Infrastructure Limited is a company limited by guarantee (company registration number 02904587)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f19",
      "text": "NHS England (formerly known as the National Health Service Commissioning Board) was established by section 1H of the National Health Service Act 2006 (c. 41); section 1H was inserted by section 9(1) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7) and amended by section 37 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 and paragraph 87 of Schedule 4 to, the Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31) and S.I. 2012/1831."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f20",
      "text": "The Office for Nuclear Regulation was established by section 77 of the Energy Act 2013 (c. 32)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f21",
      "text": "The Office of Rail and Road was established by section 15 of the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 (c. 20); section 15 was amended by S.I. 2015/1682."
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:38:30.428649+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."
}