Explanatory Notes

Planning (Wales) Act 2015

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6 July 2015

Commentary on Sections

Part 3 Development Planning

Section 8 – Duty to consider whether to review Local Development Plan

40.This section inserts section 68A into the PCPA 2004. It provides that following publication or revision of the National Development Framework or the adoption or approval of a strategic development plan, a local planning authority must consider whether to review its local development plan.

41.This section makes a consequential amendment to section 69 of the PCPA 2004. (Section 69 deals with reviews of local development plans.)