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Welsh Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 2162 (W.192)

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, WALES

The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Commencement No.4 and Consequential, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (Wales) (Amendment No.2) Order 2008

Made

12 August 2008

Coming into force

2 September 2008

The Welsh Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers vested in them(1) by sections 121(5) and 122(3) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004(2):

Title, commencement, extent and application

1.—(1) The title of this Order is the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Commencement No.4 and Consequential, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (Wales) (Amendment No.2) Order 2008 and it comes into force on 2 September 2008.

(2) This Order extends to Wales and England and applies in relation to Wales.

Amendment of The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Commencement No.4 and Consequential, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (Wales) Order 2005

2.  In the Schedule to The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Commencement No.4 and Consequential, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (Wales) Order 2005(3), omit the words “Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council”.

Rosemary Thomas

Head of Planning Division on behalf of the Minister for Environment, Sustainability and Housing, one of the Welsh Ministers

12 August 2008

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings to an end the transitional arrangements made under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Commencement No.4 and Consequential, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (Wales) Order 2005 (“the No.4 Order”) in relation to “Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council (“the Council”).

Under those arrangements, each local planning authority listed in the Schedule to the No.4 Order is able to continue with the process leading ultimately to the adoption of its unitary development plan under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, instead of having to start work on the preparation of a local development plan under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.

This Order removes the Council from the list of local planning authorities in the Schedule to the No.4 Order and thus places the Council under a duty to prepare a local development plan for its area.

(1)

The functions conferred on the National Assembly for Wales by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5) are exercisable by the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162 of , and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).