{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-local-planning-england-regulations-2026/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-local-planning-england-regulations-2026/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/186",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-local-planning-england-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Local plans: other matters to which regard is to be had",
  "text": "The prescribed matters to which a local planning authority must have regard for the purposes of section 15CA(6)(i) of the Act are—\n(a) the local planning authority’s self-assessment summary,\n(b) where the local planning authority carry out a consultation in connection with the preparation of the local plan in addition to when they are required to do so under regulations 20, 23 and 27, any responses to that consultation,\n(c) policies developed by a local transport authority in accordance with section 108 of the Transport Act 2000,\n(d) the objectives of preventing major accidents and limiting the consequences of such accidents for human health and the environment,\n(e) the need, in the long term—\n(i) to maintain appropriate safety distances between establishments and residential areas, buildings and areas of public use, recreational areas, and, as far as possible, major transport routes,\n(ii) to protect areas of particular natural sensitivity or interest in the vicinity of establishments, where appropriate through appropriate safety distances or other relevant measures, and\n(iii) in the case of existing establishments, to take additional technical measures in accordance with regulation 5 of the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 2015 so as not to increase the risks to human health or the environment, and\n(f) the national waste management plan (which has the same meaning as in the Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 38. Section 108 was relevantly amended by section 7(2), section 8, section 9(1) and paragraph 42 of Schedule 4 to the Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26); paragraph 96 of Schedule 6 to the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (c. 20); paragraph 125 of Schedule 4 to the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2015/483."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2011/988. See regulation 3; there are amendments to regulation 3 which are not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/186/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:05:31.026098+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."
}