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

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the 2011 Act” means the Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011;

“consultation bodies” means—

(a)

Northern Ireland government departments,

(b)

the council for any district which adjoins that of the council carrying out the consultation,

(c)

a water or sewerage undertaker,

(d)

the Northern Ireland Housing Executive,

(e)

the Civil Aviation Authority,

(f)

any person to whom the electronic communications code applies by virtue of a direction given under section 106(3) of the Communications Act 2003(1),

(g)

any person to whom a licence has been granted under Article 10(1) of the Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1992(2),

(h)

any person to whom a licence has been granted under Article 8 of the Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1996(3);

“council” means a district council;

“electronic communication” has the meaning assigned to it by section 4 of the Electronic Communications Act (Northern Ireland) 2001(4),

“inspection” means inspection by the public;

“local advertisement” means an advertisement for two successive weeks in at least one newspaper circulating in the district of the council;

“person appointed” means a person appointed by the Department under section 10(4) to carry out an independent examination;

“preferred options paper” means a consultation document prepared by the council for the purpose of consulting the public before a local development plan is prepared;

“site specific policy” means a policy in a development plan document which identifies a site for a particular use or development;

“site specific policy representation” means any representation which seeks to change a development plan document by—

(a)

adding a site specific policy to the development plan document; or

(b)

altering or deleting any site specific policy in the development plan document;

“timetable” means a timetable prepared under section 7.

(2) In these Regulations any references to sections are references to sections of the 2011 Act unless otherwise stated.

(1)

2003 c.21

(2)

S.I. 1992/231 (N.I. 1)

(3)

S.I. 1996/275 (N.I. 2) as amended by S.R. 2011/155, S.R. 2013/92

(4)

2001 c.9 (N.I.) as amended by 2003 c.21