Part 4

Parishes
Chapter 3

Reorganisation

Key terms used

Community governance applications
80A
1
A community governance application is an application for a community governance review to be undertaken.
2
An application is not a valid community governance application unless the conditions in subsections (3) to (7) are met (so far as they are applicable).
3
The application may be made only by an organisation or body designated as a neighbourhood forum under section 61F of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
4
The application must relate to the whole or any part of an area specified in a neighbourhood development plan made under section 38A of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.
5
The application must—
a
define the area to which the review is to relate (whether on a map or otherwise), and
b
specify one or more recommendations which the applicant wishes a community governance review to consider making.
6
If the specified recommendations include the constitution of a new parish, the application must define the area of the new parish (whether on a map or otherwise).
7
If the specified recommendations include the alteration of the area of an existing parish, the application must define the area of the parish as it would be after alteration (whether on a map or otherwise).
8
If the specified recommendations include the constitution of a new parish, the application is to be treated for the purposes of this Chapter as if the specified recommendations also include the recommendations in section 87(5) to (7).
9
If the specified recommendations include the establishment of a parish council or parish meeting for an area which does not exist as a parish, the application is to be treated for the purposes of this Chapter as if the specified recommendations also include recommendations for such a parish to come into being (either by constitution of a new parish or alteration of the area of an existing parish).
Pt. 4 Ch. 3: transfer of functions (1.4.2010) by Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (c. 20), ss. 60(2)(3)(d), 148(3)(b) (with s. 63(4)); S.I. 2009/3318, art. 4(i)
S. 80A inserted (E.) (27.3.2015) by The Legislative Reform (Community Governance Reviews) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/998), arts. 1(3), 4