{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-development-plan-england-regulations-1999/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-development-plan-england-regulations-1999/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3280",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Development Plan) (England) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-development-plan-england-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Regard to be had to certain matters and statement of regard",
  "text": "(1) In formulating their general policies in Part 1 of a unitary development plan, the local planning authority shall, in addition to the matters specified in section 12(6), have regard to–\n(a) economic, environmental and social considerations;\n(b) the national waste strategy;\n(c) the objectives of preventing major accidents and limiting the consequences of such accidents; and\n(d) the need;\n(i) in the long term, to maintain appropriate distances between establishments and residential areas, areas of public use and areas of particular sensitivity or interest; and\n(ii) in the case of existing establishments, for additional technical measures in accordance with Article 5 of the Directive so as not to increase the risks to people.\n(2) In formulating their proposals in Part II of a unitary development plan, or their policies in a local plan, waste local plan or minerals local plan, a local planning authority shall have regard to the matters specified in section 12(6) and in paragraph (1).\n(3) The reasoned justification of the general policies in Part I and of the proposals in Part II of a unitary development plan, and of the policies formulated in a local plan, minerals local plan, or waste local plan, shall contain a statement of–\n(a) the regard which the local planning authority have had to the matters specified in section 12(6) and paragraph (1);\n(b) the reason for any inconsistency between the policies or proposals and the national waste strategy; and\n(c) the account which the authority have taken of any enterprise zone scheme in their area.\n(5) In this regulation “the Directive” means Council Directive 96/82/EC on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances.\n(6) Expressions appearing both in the Directive and in paragraph (1) have the same meaning as in the Directive.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L10, 14.1.1997, p. 13."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/988",
      "affecting_title": "The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3280/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:44.965851+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."
}