Town and Country Planning Act 1990

5 (1) In this paragraph—

• “action area” means any area indicated by the Greater London Development Plan as an area intended for comprehensive development, redevelopment or improvement as a whole which the Secretary of State has directed shall be treated as an action area, and

• “G.L.C. action area” means an action area in whose case it was indicated in the Greater London Development Plan that it was for the Greater London Council, and not a London borough council, to prepare a local plan for that area.

(2) As soon as practicable in the case of any action area other than a G.L.C. action area—

(a) if it is wholly comprised within a London borough, the council of that borough shall prepare a local plan for the area, and

(b) if not, the council of every London borough in which any part of the action area falls shall prepare a local plan for that part,

but this sub-paragraph shall not be taken to require a council to do again anything which they have already done.

(3) Where a council are required by this paragraph to prepare a local plan, they shall take steps for the adoption of that plan.