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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/west-northamptonshire-development-corporation-planning-functions-order-2006/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/616",
  "legislation_title": "The West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (Planning Functions) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/west-northamptonshire-development-corporation-planning-functions-order-2006",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThe West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (the corporation) was established by the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/3370) for the purpose of regenerating the West Northamptonshire urban development area.\nThis Order describes, with the use of maps, the areas of the urban development area in which this Order confers planning functions on the development corporation (“the planning functions areas”)(article 3). The planning functions areas comprise a central planning functions area and an outer planning functions area.\nThis Order makes the corporation the local planning authority in each planning functions area in relation to specified kinds of development for the purposes of Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (control over development)(articles 4 and 5).\nThe Order applies the provisions of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 specified in Part 2 of Schedule 29 to the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 to the corporation and to the planning functions areas, subject to the modifications set out in that Part (article 6).\nThe Order makes transitional arrangements, including provision that the corporation will be entitled to determine certain applications made to (but not determined) by the current local planning authority before the date this Order comes into force in relation to development of a kind for which the corporation is the local planning authority on or after that date. The applications concerned are those for planning permission under the 1990 Act or for a consent, approval or determination under the 1990 Act or under any order or regulation made or having effect under that Act.(article 7).\nA second transitional provision provides that responsibility for the payment of compensation under sections 107, 108, 115 or 185 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 remains with the authority that took the action giving rise to a right to compensation (article 8).\nPrints of the maps referred to in article 3 of this Order are available for inspection at all reasonable hours in the Library of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE, and at the Government Office for the East Midlands, The Belgrave Centre, Stanley Place, Talbot Street, Nottingham NG1 5GG. The maps are also available at the offices of the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation, Franklin’s Gardens, Weedon Road, Northampton, NN5 5BG; Northamptonshire County Council, County Hall, Northampton, NN1 1AX; Northampton Borough Council, Cliftonville House, Bedford Road, Northampton NN4 7NR; Daventry District Council, Lodge Road, Daventry, NN11 5AF; and South Northamptonshire District Council, Springfields, Towcester, Northamptonshire, NN12 6AE.\nA regulatory impact assessment has been prepared in relation to this Order, and it is available on the internet at www.odpm.gov.uk. Alternatively copies can be obtained by post from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Growth Areas Division, Zone 1/C4, Eland House, Bressenden Place, London SWIE 5DU.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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