Prospective

PART 2 E+W THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN

CHAPTER 4 E+W STRATEGIC AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS: PROCEDURE

Intervention by the Welsh Ministers and withdrawal of plans before adoption E+W

29 Default powers of the Welsh Ministers E+W

(1) This section applies if the Welsh Ministers consider that a plan-making authority is failing to do anything it is necessary for the authority to do in connection with the preparation or adoption of its plan.

(2) The Welsh Ministers may prepare the plan.

(3) The Welsh Ministers must cause an independent examination to be held in accordance with section 23(4) to (7).

(4) The Welsh Ministers must publish the recommendations and reasons of the inspector who carries out the examination.

(5) The Welsh Ministers may approve the plan as a strategic development plan or local development plan (as the case may be).

(6) The Welsh Ministers must give reasons for anything they do under subsection (2) or (5).

(7) The plan-making authority must reimburse the Welsh Ministers for any costs they incur in connection with anything—

(a) that they do under subsection (2) or (5), and

(b) that the authority failed to do as mentioned in subsection (1).

Commencement Information

I1 S. 29 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 409(2)