The Town and Country Planning (Development Plan) (England) Regulations 1999

Deposit of revised proposals

24.—(1) This regulation applies when objections have been made in accordance with regulation 23, no inquiry or other hearing has been held pursuant to section 16 or 42 in relation to the plan or proposals made available under regulation 22, and the local planning authority consider it appropriate to revise that plan or those proposals.

(2) The authority shall–

(a) revise the plan or proposals made available under regulation 22 as the authority consider appropriate;

(b) make the revised plan or revised proposals available for inspection at those places at which the plan or proposals were made available under regulation 22(1)(a);

(c) give notice by advertisement in Form 7; and

(d) serve a notice in similar form on any person who has objected to, or made a representation in respect of, the plan or proposals in accordance with these Regulations and not withdrawn the objection or representation, and on such other persons as the authority think fit.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the revised plan or revised proposals made available under paragraph (2)(b) shall comprise the full text of the plan or proposals as revised indicating clearly any new text included or any text deleted as part of the revision.

(4) A revised plan or revised proposals made available under paragraph (2)(b) shall not be required to contain a revised version of the map required by section 12(4)(b) or 36(6)(a) provided that the revised plan or proposals contain that map and such diagrams or maps as are necessary to indicate the changes required to that map as a result of the revisions.

(5) The revised plan or revised proposals made available for inspection shall be accompanied by a list of the revisions made.

(6) The authority shall send four copies of the documents made available for inspection to the Secretary of State and one copy of the documents to each of those bodies listed in paragraphs (c) to (f) of regulation 10(1) and to any other local authority for an area covered by the plan or proposals.

(7) An authority may not revise proposals pursuant to this regulation more than once.

(8) An objection is made in accordance with this regulation if it–

(a) is made within six weeks beginning with the date on which a notice given pursuant to paragraph (2)(c) is first published in a local newspaper;

(b) is an objection to a part of the plan or proposals which has been revised; and

(c) is made in writing and addressed to the local planning authority in accordance with the details given in the published notice.

(9) A representation made by the Secretary of State within the time and in the manner required by paragraphs (8)(a) and (c) that the revised plan or proposals should be modified to accord with current national policies or regional or strategic planning guidance given by the Secretary of State shall be treated, for the purposes of regulations 26 and 28 and sections 16 and 42, as an objection made in accordance with this regulation.