1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Development Plan) (England) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 4th January 2000.
(2) These Regulations extend to England only.
2.—(1) In these Regulations–
“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;
“by advertisement” means by publication in the London Gazette and by local advertisement;
“by local advertisement” means by publication on at least one occasion in two successive weeks in a local newspaper circulating in the area of the local planning authority;
“national waste strategy” means any statement which contains the Secretary of State’s policies in relation to the recovery and disposal of waste in England, and which is made under section 44A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(1), or, pending the publication of the first such statement, any relevant waste disposal plan prepared under section 50 of that Act(2);
“statutory plan” means a unitary development plan, structure plan, local plan, minerals local plan or waste local plan;
“statutory plan proposals” means proposals for a statutory plan or for the alteration or replacement of a statutory plan.
(2) In these Regulations–
(a)a reference to a section (other than to a section of a specific Act) is a reference to that section of the 1990 Act;
(b)a reference to a numbered form is a reference to the correspondingly numbered form in the Schedule to these Regulations;
(c)in relation to the making, alteration or replacement of a statutory plan by two or more local planning authorities jointly, a reference to a local planning authority shall be read as a reference to all of the local planning authorities making, altering or replacing the plan.
3. These Regulations apply with respect to–
(a)the form and content of unitary development plans and the procedure to be followed in connection with the making, alteration and replacement of such plans under Chapter I of Part II of the 1990 Act;
(b)the form and content of structure plans and the procedure to be followed in connection with the alteration and replacement of such plans under Chapter II of Part II of the 1990 Act;
(c)the form and content of local plans, minerals local plans and waste local plans and the procedure to be followed in connection with the making, alteration and replacement of such plans under Chapter II of Part II of the 1990 Act.
Section 44A was inserted by section 92 of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25).
Section 50 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (waste disposal plans of waste regulation authorities) ceased to have effect on 1st April 1996 (S.I. 1996/186, commencing paragraph 78 of Schedule 22 to the Environment Act 1995). However, under paragraph 16 of Schedule 23 to the Environment Act 1995 and S.I. 1996/234, any waste disposal plan or modification of such a plan under section 50 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, whose content has been finally determined before 1st April 1996, is to continue in force until the content of the national waste strategy is finally determined, notwithstanding the repeal of section 50.