Explanatory note

The Teesside Development Corporation was established by the Teesside Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1987 for the purpose of regenerating the Teesside 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 authorities to determine applications received by them prior to the date on which the Order comes into operation or with the applicant's agreement to transmit them to the corporation for determination (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.