SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7Simplified Planning Zones

Adoption of proposals by local planning authority

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1

The local planning authority shall consider any objections to proposals for the making or alteration of a simplified planning zone scheme which are duly made within the period given for making such objections and after that period has expired they may, subject to the following provisions of this paragraph and to paragraph 10, by resolution adopt the proposals.

2

The authority may adopt the proposals as originally prepared or as modified so as to take account of—

a

any such objections as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) or any other objections to the proposals, or

b

any other considerations which appear to the authority to be material.

3

If, before the proposals have been adopted by the local planning authority, it appears to the Secretary of State that they are unsatisfactory, he may direct the authority to consider modifying the proposals in such respects as are indicated in the direction.

4

An authority to whom such a direction is given shall not adopt the proposals unless—

a

they satisfy the Secretary of State that they have made the modifications necessary to conform with the direction, or

b

the direction is withdrawn.