The Town and Country Planning (Development Plan) Regulations 1991

PART 1 GENERAL

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Development Plan) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 10th February 1992.

Interpretation

2.  –

(1) In these Regulations–

“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;

“the 1991 Act” means the Planning and Compensation Act 1991;

“by advertisement” means by publication in the London Gazette and by local advertisement;

“by local advertisement” means by publication on at least one occasion in two successive weeks in a local newspaper circulating in the area of the local planning authority;

“statutory plan” means a unitary development plan, structure plan, local plan, minerals local plan or waste local plan.

(2) In these Regulations–

(a) a reference to the section of an Act is a reference to that section of the 1990 Act;

(b) a reference to a numbered form is a reference to the correspondingly numbered form in the Schedule to these Regulations;

(c) in relation to the making, alteration or replacement of a statutory plan by two or more local planning authorities jointly, a reference to a local planning authority shall be read as a reference to all of the local planning authorities making, altering or replacing the plan.

(3) Part 8 of these Regulations shall be interpreted in accordance with regulation 38.

Application

3.  These Regulations apply with respect to–

(a) the form and content of unitary development plans and the procedure to be followed in connection with the making, alteration and replacement of such plans under Chapter I of Part II of the 1990 Act;

(b) the form and content of structure plans and the procedure to be followed in connection with the alteration and replacement of such plans under Chapter II of Part II of the 1990 Act;

(c) the form and content of local plans, minerals local plans and waste local plans and the procedure to be followed in connection with the making, alteration and replacement of such plans under Chapter II of Part II of the 1990 Act.