PART 2THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN

CHAPTER 4STRATEGIC AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS: PROCEDURE

Joint local development plans

37End of joint arrangements between planning authorities

(1)

This section applies if—

(a)

the Welsh Ministers withdraw a direction to prepare a joint local development plan or vary it so that it ceases to apply to a planning authority, or

(b)

a planning authority withdraws from an agreement to prepare a joint local development plan.

(2)

Steps taken in relation to the joint local development plan must be treated as steps taken—

(a)

by a planning authority to which the direction or agreement applied for the purposes of a corresponding local development plan prepared by the authority, or

(b)

by two or more planning authorities to which the direction or agreement applied for the purposes of a corresponding joint local development plan prepared by those authorities.

(3)

Any independent examination of a joint local development plan to which the direction or agreement applied must be suspended.

(4)

But the Welsh Ministers may direct that—

(a)

the examination is to be resumed in relation to the corresponding local development plan or corresponding joint local development plan;

(b)

steps taken for the purposes of the suspended examination are to have effect for the purposes of the resumed examination.

(5)

The Welsh Ministers may give a direction under subsection (4) only if—

(a)

a planning authority to which the direction or agreement applied requests them to do so, and

(b)

the request is made before the end of the period specified in regulations

(6)

Regulations may—

(a)

specify circumstances in which subsections (2), (4) and (5) are not to apply in relation to a planning authority;

(b)

make provision about what is a corresponding local development plan or a corresponding joint local development plan.