# The Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2026, Regulation 55: Publication of summary of consultation on the proposed minerals and waste plan document


(1) A minerals and waste planning authority must prepare, in connection with the preparation of their minerals and waste plan document, a document to be known as their “summary of consultation on the proposed minerals and waste plan document”.
(2) The summary of consultation on the proposed minerals and waste plan document must set out—
(a) the general consultation bodies and the specific consultation bodies who were invited to make representations under regulation 52,
(b) the manner by which those invited bodies were asked to make any representations under regulation 52,
(c) if representations were made under regulation 52, whether by persons invited to do so or otherwise, a summary of the main issues raised in those representations,
(d) if representations were made under regulation 52, how the minerals and waste planning authority have, to date, had regard to those representations in accordance with section 15CA(6)(b) of the Act, and
(e) if applicable, that no representations were made under regulation 52.
(3) A minerals and waste planning authority must make their summary of consultation on the proposed minerals and waste plan document available in accordance with regulation 88 no earlier than on the day after the date specified in the notice of proposed minerals and waste plan document consultation.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/186/regulation/55 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-local-planning-england-regulations-2026/regulation-55
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