{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-local-planning-england-regulations-2026/regulation-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-local-planning-england-regulations-2026/regulation-44.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/44",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Notice of intention to commence minerals and waste plan document preparation",
  "text": "(1) A minerals and waste planning authority must prepare, in connection with the preparation of their minerals and waste plan document, and make available in accordance with regulation 88, a document to be known as their “notice of intention to commence minerals and waste plan document preparation”.\n(2) The notice of intention to commence minerals and waste plan document preparation must contain the following information—\n(a) the name of the minerals and waste planning authority who have prepared the notice,\n(b) the geographical area to which the minerals and waste plan document is to relate,\n(c) the title, if any, by which the minerals and waste planning authority will refer to the minerals and waste plan document,\n(d) details of where the minerals and waste planning authority’s minerals and waste plan timetable is published,\n(e) details of whether the minerals and waste plan document which the minerals and waste planning authority are to prepare is intended to incorporate all or part of the authority’s minerals and waste plan, and\n(f) the date on which the notice is made available under paragraph (1).\n(3) Where a minerals and waste plan document for a minerals and waste planning authority’s relevant area is to be a joint minerals and waste plan document, the authority’s notice of intention to commence minerals and waste plan document preparation must also specify each other minerals and waste planning authority for whose relevant area the joint minerals and waste plan document is to be a document which is or forms part of their minerals and waste plan.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 15LG(6) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 for the definition of “relevant area” applying to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/186/regulation/44",
    "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."
}