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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-local-planning-england-regulations-2026/regulation-59",
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  "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/59",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Submission of documents and information to the Secretary of State",
  "text": "(1) The documents prescribed for the purposes of section 15D(2) of the Act are—\n(a) the minerals and waste planning authority’s map of proposed minerals and waste plan document policies,\n(b) the gateway 3 completion statement,\n(c) a statement setting out a summary of the consultation and engagement activities carried out by the minerals and waste planning authority in preparing their proposed minerals and waste plan document,\n(d) the minerals and waste planning authority’s summary of consultation on the proposed minerals and waste plan document,\n(e) where regulation 53 (conformity with operative spatial development strategy) applies to the minerals and waste planning authority and representations were made under that regulation, copies of those representations,\n(f) a statement of compliance,\n(g) a statement of soundness,\n(h) where an environmental report has been prepared in accordance with regulation 12 of the Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004, a copy of that report,\n(i) where the minerals and waste planning authority have determined under regulation 9 (1) of the Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004 that the proposed minerals and waste plan document is unlikely to have significant environmental effects (and, accordingly, does not require an environmental assessment), a copy of the statement of its reasons for the determination prepared under regulation 9 (3) of those Regulations, and\n(j) such supporting documents as the minerals and waste planning authority consider necessary to demonstrate that it would be reasonable for the examiner to conclude that their proposed minerals and waste plan document is sound.\n(2) As soon as is reasonably practicable after a minerals and waste planning authority submit their proposed minerals and waste plan document to the Secretary of State for independent examination, the authority must—\n(a) publish on their website a statement confirming the date on which the proposed minerals and waste plan document was submitted to the Secretary of State for independent examination,\n(b) make available in accordance with regulation 88—\n(i) a copy of the proposed minerals and waste plan document,\n(ii) a copy of each of the documents referred to in paragraph (1) of this regulation, and\n(iii) a statement of the fact that the documents referred to in paragraphs (i) and (ii) are available for inspection and of the places and times at which they can be inspected, and\n(c) notify each person who requested to be notified of the submission of the proposed minerals and waste plan document to the Secretary of State for independent examination and such other persons as the authority consider appropriate that—\n(i) the proposed minerals and waste plan document has been submitted to the Secretary of State, and\n(ii) the documents referred to in sub-paragraph (b)(i) and (ii) are available for inspection and of the places and times at which they can be inspected.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/186/regulation/59",
    "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."
}