Regulation 88 Availability of documents: general

(1)

A document is taken to be “made available” by a local planning authority, minerals and waste planning authority or the Mayor of London when that document is—

(a)

published on their website,

(b)

made available for inspection at their principal office during normal office hours, and

(c)

made available for inspection—

(i)

in relation to a planning authority, at such other places within their area as the authority consider appropriate during normal office hours, or

(ii)

in relation to the Mayor of London, at such other places within Greater London as the Mayor considers appropriate during normal office hours.

(2)

A local planning authority, minerals and waste planning authority or the Mayor of London may cease to make available any document made available under these Regulations once the period specified in paragraph (3) has expired, except—

(a)

a local plan timetable or a minerals and waste plan timetable which has been published under section 15B(8) of the Act^f1;

(b)

a local plan, a document which is or forms part of a minerals and waste plan or a supplementary plan which has been adopted or approved under Part 2 of the Act;

(c)

the recommendations and reasons of the examiner which have been published under section 15D(13) of the Act in relation to a local plan;

(d)

the recommendations and reasons of the examiner which have been published under section 15D(13) of the Act in relation to a document which is or forms part of a minerals and waste plan;

(e)

the recommendations and reasons of the examiner which have been published under section 15DB(13) of the Act in relation to a supplementary plan;

(f)

a policies map.

(3)

For the purposes of paragraph (2), the period is three months beginning with the day after the date on which the relevant plan document to which the document relates is adopted or approved under Part 2 of the Act.

(4)

In this regulation, “relevant plan document” means a local plan, a document which is or forms part of a minerals and waste plan or a supplementary plan.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 15B(8) is applied in relation to a minerals and waste plan timetable by section 15BB(4) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.