Regulation 86 Revision of a policies map

(1)

A local planning authority must revise their policies map to bring it up to date as soon as is reasonably practicable after one of the events specified in paragraph (2) occurs, where the event results in a change to the geographical application of the authority’s development plan.

(2)

The events specified in this paragraph are—

(a)

the adoption or approval of a local plan under Part 2 of the Act, other than the first local plan for the local planning authority’s area adopted or approved under that Part,

(b)

the adoption or approval of a supplementary plan under Part 2 of the Act,

(c)

when a neighbourhood development plan is made under section 38A of the Act,

(d)

the adoption or approval of a minerals and waste plan document under Part 2 of the Act, and

(e)

the publication or adoption of a spatial development strategy under section 337 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999^f1 or Part 1A of the Act.

(3)

Paragraph (4) applies at the time that an authority revises their policies map in accordance with—

(a)

the duty to keep the policies map up to date under section 15LD(1) of the Act, or

(b)

paragraph (1).

(4)

The authority must on the same day publicise the fact that their policies map has been revised on their website, and in doing so must set out the date on which the policies map was revised and a description of the revisions.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1999 c. 29; section 337 was amended by section 96(1) of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55); there are other amendments to section 337 which are not relevant to these Regulations.