Part I New Towns and Their Development Corporations
Development corporations
F14APowers in relation to infrastructure: England
(1)
A development corporation established for the purposes of a new town in England may, to secure the laying out and development referred to in section 4(1), provide or facilitate the provision of infrastructure.
(2)
In this section “provide” includes provide by way of acquisition, construction, conversion, improvement or repair (and “provision” is to be read in the same way).
(3)
In this section “infrastructure” means—
(a)
water, electricity, gas, telecommunications, sewerage or other services, including heat networks,
(b)
roads or other transport facilities,
(c)
retail or other business facilities,
(d)
health, educational, employment or training facilities,
(e)
social, religious or recreational facilities,
(f)
cremation or burial facilities, and
(g)
community facilities not falling within paragraphs (a) to (f).
(4)
Section 4(5) applies in relation to subsection (1) as it applies in relation to section 4(2).