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Explanatory note

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These Regulations revoke and amend secondary legislation relating to strategic planning.

Regulation 2 revokes the Regional Strategy for Yorkshire and Humber, in so far as it has not already been revoked.

Regulation 3 and the Schedule revoke—

  1. (a)

    the Combined Authorities (Spatial Development Strategy) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/827);

  2. (b)

    the Combined Authorities (Spatial Development) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/924);

  3. (c)

    the Town and Country Planning (Spatial Development Strategy) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/765) .

Regulation 4 amends the Town and Country Planning (London Spatial Development Strategy) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1491) to remove out-of date provisions relating to the coronavirus pandemic.

Regulations 5 to 8 and 10 make revocations to secondary legislation that are consequential on the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (c. 34) (“the 2025 Act”). Section 58 of the 2025 Act inserts new Part 1A into the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5) (“the 2004 Act”). New Part 1A confers strategic planning functions on combined authorities, combined county authorities, upper-tier county councils and unitary authorities (known as “strategic planning authorities”) and requires these authorities to prepare a spatial development strategy. Regulations 5 to 8 and 10 revoke provisions in secondary legislation which duplicate and/or contradict the provisions regarding combined authorities’ strategic planning functions in the 2004 Act. The revocations apply to secondary legislation governing the following combined authorities—

  1. (a)

    the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (regulations 5 and 6);

  2. (b)

    the West of England Combined Authority (regulation 7);

  3. (c)

    the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (regulation 8);

  4. (d)

    the North East Mayoral Combined Authority (regulation 10)

Regulation 9 amends the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning, Development Management Procedure, Listed Buildings etc.) (England) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1398) to remove out-of-date provisions relating to the coronavirus pandemic.

Regulation 11 amends the Requirement to Assist with Certain Plan Making (Prescribed Public Bodies) (England) Regulations 2026 to add strategic planning authorities to the list of bodies who can be subject to a notification under section 39A(1) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5) requiring assistance in relation to the preparation of a relevant plan as defined in section 39A(5) of that Act.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen. An impact assessment was prepared for the 2025 Act and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/planning-and-infrastructure-bill-impact-assessment and can be inspected at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF.