The West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 2004

Statutory Instruments

2004 No. 3370

URBAN DEVELOPMENT, ENGLAND

The West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 2004

Approved by both Houses of Parliament

Made

4th May 2004

Laid before Parliament

13th May 2004

Coming into force

15th December 2004

The First Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 134(1) and 135 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 26 to, the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 2004, and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

Designation of urban development area

2.—(1) The area comprising the three areas shown on the maps bounded externally by a black line and edged internally with a stippled band is hereby designated as an urban development area.

(2) In paragraph (1), “the maps” means the set of maps numbered 1 to 3 entitled “Maps referred to in the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 2004”, of which prints, signed by a Director in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and dated 4th May 2004, are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the First Secretary of State and the offices of Government Office for the East Midlands, Northamptonshire County Council, South Northamptonshire Council, Daventry District Council and Northampton Borough Council.

Establishment of the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation

3.—(1) For the purposes of regenerating the area designated by article 2(1) there is hereby established an urban development corporation named “West Northamptonshire Development Corporation”.

(2) The corporation established by paragraph (1) shall consist of eleven members in addition to the chairman and deputy chairman.

Signed by authority of the First Secretary of State

Jeff Rooker

Minister of State,

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

4th May 2004

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates three areas in Northamptonshire as an urban development area, and establishes an urban development corporation to regenerate the area. The three areas are shown, for indicative purposes only, hatched black on the map forming part of this note.

The urban development corporation is to be called “West Northamptonshire Development Corporation”, and will have eleven members in addition to the chairman and deputy chairman.

Prints of the maps referred to in article 2 of this Order are available for inspection at all reasonable hours in the Library of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE, at the Government Office for the East Midlands, The Belgrave Centre, Stanley Place, Talbot Street, Nottingham NG1 5GG, and at the planning offices of any of the Councils mentioned in article 2(2), namely:

• Northamptonshire County Council, County Hall, Northampton NN1 1AX;

• South Northamptonshire Council, Springfields, Towcester NN12 6AE;

• Daventry District Council, Lodge Road, Daventry NN11 5AF; and

• Northampton Borough Council, Cliftonville House, Bedford Road, Northampton NN4 7NR.

The regulatory impact assessment relating to this Order is available on the internet at www.odpm.gov.uk. Alternatively copies can be obtained by post from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Zone 4/G10, Eland House, Bressenden Place, London SW1E 5DU.

(1)

1980 c. 65. Section 134 was amended by the Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c. 63), sections 47, 49(2) and Part III of Schedule 12; and by the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c. 28), section 179(1), (2) and (3). Section 135 was amended by the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, section 179(4). The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 134, 135 and paragraph 1 of Schedule 26 were, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), article 2; see the entry in Schedule 1 for the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980.