London Government Act 1963

29 Miscellaneous modifications of Planning Act

(1) In the application to Greater London of the following provisions of the Planning Act, that is to say, sections 68 (1), 71, 74, 75 (7), 112 (4) and (5), 129 (1), 135 (1), 136 (1) and 207 (5), any reference therein to a county borough or the council thereof shall be construed as including a reference to a London borough or the council thereof and to the City or the Common Council, as the case may be.

(2) Where under section 68 (1) of the Planning Act the Minister has power to authorise a London borough council or the Common Council to acquire any land compulsorily, he may, if after consultation with that council and with the Greater London Council he thinks it expedient so to do, authorise the land to be so acquired by the Greater London Council instead of the borough council or Common Council, and in that case shall have the like powers under section 207 (5) of that Act in relation to the Greater London Council as in relation to the borough council or Common Council.

(3) The powers conferred on London borough councils and the Common Council by section 71 of the Planning Act shall be exercisable also by the Greater London Council—

(a) in a London borough, with the consent of the council of the borough; or

(b) in the City, with the consent of the Common Council; or

(c) in the Inner Temple or the Middle Temple, with the consent of the Sub-Treasurer or, as the case may be, Under-Treasurer thereof; or

(d) in any of the areas aforesaid, if the appropriate consent aforesaid is withheld, with the consent of the Minister ; or

(e) in relation to land in any of the areas aforesaid, without any such consent as aforesaid, if the land is used for the purposes of an industrial or commercial undertaking and is to be acquired incidentally to the removal of that undertaking from Greater London.

(4) In section 154 (7) of the Planning Act (which defines the expression " local authority " for the purposes of certain orders relating to highways) after the words " rural district" there shall be inserted the words " the Greater London Council, the council of a London borough, the Common Council of the City of London ",

(5) In section 221(1) of the Planning Act, in the definition of " local authority", for the words " and any other authority being" there shall be substituted the words " the Greater London Council, the council of a London borough and any other authority (except the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District) who are ",

(6) For the purposes of sections 8, 86(5), 178 (1) and (2), 179, 189(2), 199, 211(1)(a) and 217(2) of the Planning Act, the provisions of sections 24 to 29 of this Act shall be deemed to be included in that Act and, in the case of sections 25 to 27 of this Act, to be included in Part II of that Act.

(7) In paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 11 to the Planning Act, after the words " that council" there shall be inserted the words " or by the Greater London Council in relation to any road for the time being designated by or under section 17 of the London Government Act 1963 as a metropolitan road ",