The Planning (Local Development Plan) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

PART 8 Joint plans

Joint plans: corresponding plan strategy or corresponding local policies plan

30.—(1) In relation to an agreement mentioned in section 17(1), the period prescribed for the purposes of section 17(7) is three months starting on the day on which any council which is a party to the agreement withdraws from it.

(2) A corresponding plan strategy or corresponding local policies plan for the purposes of section 17(5) is a plan strategy or local policies plan which—

(a) does not relate to any part of the district of the council that has withdrawn from the agreement, and

(b) with respect to the districts of the councils which prepared it, and has not withdrawn from the agreement, has substantially the same effect as the original joint plan.

(3) In paragraph (2)(b), “original joint plan” means a joint plan strategy or a joint local policies plan prepared pursuant to the agreement mentioned in paragraph (1).

Power of the Department to direct councils to prepare joint plans

31.—(1) This regulation applies if the Department gives a direction under section 18(1).

(2) The Department must—

(a) give notice by local advertisement that it has given such a direction under section 18(1), and

(b) publish the direction on its website.

(3) The council must—

(a) make the direction available for inspection during normal office hours at—

(i) its principal offices, and

(ii) such other places within its district as it considers appropriate, and

(b) publish the direction on its website.