The Town and Country Planning (Development Plan) Regulations 1991

Called-in proposals

24.—(1) Where the Secretary of State is minded to approve with modifications proposals for a statutory plan or for the alteration or replacement of a statutory plan submitted to him for his approval, he shall, unless, in his opinion, the proposed modifications will not materially affect the content of the plan proposals, send a list of the proposed modifications to the local planning authority, and the authority shall, upon receipt of the list–

(a) make copies of the list available for inspection at any place at which the plan proposals have been made available for inspection;

(b) give notice by local advertisement in Form 6; and

(c) serve notice in similar form on any person who has objected to, or made a representation in respect of, the plan in accordance with these regulations and not withdrawn the objection or representation and on any other person on whom the Secretary of State directs them to serve such a notice.

(2) The period within which objections or representations may be made to the Secretary of State in respect of the proposed modifications is six weeks beginning with the date on which a notice given pursuant to paragraph (1) is first published in a local newspaper.

(3) Objections and representations shall be made in writing and addressed in accordance with the details given in the notice.

(4) Where the Secretary of State causes a local inquiry or other hearing to be held for the purpose of considering objections to statutory plan proposals submitted to him for his approval, or to modifications which he proposes to make to such proposals, he shall give such notice as the local planning authority would be required to give by regulation 14(1) if they were proposing to hold an inquiry or other hearing.

(5) Where the Secretary of State causes an examination in public to be held under section 20(4) or 35B(2) of matters affecting his consideration of proposals submitted to him for his approval, or modifications which he proposes to make to such proposals, he shall–

(a) send a list of the matters with which the examination in public will be concerned and the persons who have been invited to take part in it to the local planning authority; and

(b) give such notice as the local planning authority would be required to give by regulation 15 if they were proposing to hold an examination in public.

(6) The local planning authority shall, on receipt of a list sent to them pursuant to paragraph (5), make that list available for inspection at any place at which the plan proposals have been made available for inspection.

(7) The local planning authority shall, on being notified by the Secretary of State of his decision on statutory plan proposals submitted to him for his approval–

(a) give notice by advertisement in Form 7;

(b) serve a notice in similar form on any person who has asked to be notified of the decision reached on the proposals and on any other person on whom the Secretary of State directs them to serve such a notice; and

(c) make a copy of the Secretary of State’s notification and of the approved or rejected proposals available for inspection at any place at which the proposals were made available for inspection under regulation 11(1)(a).