The Town and Country Planning (London Spatial Development Strategy) Regulations 2000

Publication

9.—(1) The prescribed period for the purposes of section 337(4)(b) of the GLA Act is the relevant period determined in accordance with paragraphs (6) to (8) of regulation 7.

(2) The Mayor shall not publish the spatial development strategy unless:

(a) he has sent to the Secretary of State—

(i) a statement of his intention to publish the spatial development strategy,

(ii) a copy of the spatial development strategy which he intends to publish, and

(iii) where he proposes not to accept any recommendation contained in the report of the panel, a statement of his reasons for not accepting that recommendation; and

(b) a period of six weeks, or such longer period as the Secretary of State in writing requires, have elapsed beginning with the date notified to the Mayor in writing by the Secretary of State as the date he received the latest of those statements and that copy.

(3) When the Mayor publishes the spatial development strategy he shall:

(a) give notice by advertisement in Form 3;

(b) serve notice in similar form on the persons specified in section 335(3)(c) and (d) of the GLA Act;

(c) make available for inspection at those places at which the proposed spatial development strategy was made available for public inspection—

(i) a copy of the spatial development strategy,

(ii) a copy of any direction given by the Secretary of State under section 337(7) of the GLA Act,

(iii) a copy of any written statement of the Secretary of State indicating for the purposes of section 337(8)(a) of the GLA Act that the Mayor has satisfied the Secretary of State that the Mayor has made the modifications to the proposed spatial development strategy necessary to conform with any such direction, and

(iv) where the Mayor has not accepted any recommendation contained in the report of the panel, a statement of his reason for not accepting that recommendation; and

(d) send to the Secretary of State and to the council for each London borough a copy of the spatial development strategy, the notice published pursuant to sub-paragraph (a), and any statement of reasons prepared pursuant to sub-paragraph (c)(iv).