Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011

Local development plan

6.—(1) Any reference—

(a) to a local development plan in this Act and in any other statutory provision relating to planning; and

(b) to a development plan in any statutory provision relating to planning,

is to be construed as a reference to the development plan documents (taken together) which have been adopted by the council or approved by the Department in accordance with section 16(6).

(2) In this Part the development plan documents are—

(a) the plan strategy;

(b) the local policies plan.

(3) If to any extent a policy contained in a local development plan conflicts with another policy in that plan the conflict must be resolved in favour of the policy which is contained in the last development plan document to be adopted or, as the case may be, approved.

(4) Where, in making any determination under this Act, regard is to be had to the local development plan, the determination must be made in accordance with the plan unless material considerations indicate otherwise.