Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 107

Industrial development

The Assisted Areas Order 2007

Made

22nd January 2007

Laid before Parliament

23rd January 2007

Coming into force

13th February 2007

The Secretary of State makes the following order in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 1(1), (3), (4) and (7) of the Industrial Development Act 1982(1):

Commencement

1.  The Order may be cited as the Assisted Areas Order 2007 and shall come into force on 13th February 2007.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

“the 1982 Act” means the Industrial Development Act 1982; and

“the 2000 Order” means the Assisted Areas Order 2000(2).

(2) In Schedule 1—

(a)any reference to a local authority area in England and Wales shall be a reference to that area as it existed on 21 June 2003;

(b)any reference to a local government area in Scotland shall be a reference to that area as it existed on 21 June 2003; and

(c)any reference to a parish or a former district council in Scotland shall be a reference to that area as it existed on 31 December 1993.

(3) In Schedule 2—

(a)any reference to a ward shall be a reference to the Census Area Statistic ward relating to the 2001 Census; and

(b)any reference to a local authority area shall be a reference to that area as it existed on 21 June 2003.

Specification

3.—(1) In this Order the specification of an area as a development area is for the purposes of the 1982 Act and section 1 of the Derelict Land Act 1982(3).

(2) On and after 13th February 2007 the areas described in Schedules 1 and 2 shall be development areas.

(3) The area in Scotland in Schedule 1 shall be a development area until 31st December 2010.

Revocation

4.  The 2000 Order is revoked.

Margaret Hodge

Minister of State for Industry and the Regions

Department of Trade and Industry

22nd January 2007

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SCHEDULE 1DEVELOPMENT AREAS

Tier 1 Areas

ENGLAND

The local authority areas of—

WALES

The local authority areas of—

SCOTLAND

The local government areas of—
The islands of—

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SCHEDULE 2DEVELOPMENT AREAS

Tier 2 Areas

ENGLAND

North East
The following wards in the local authority area of Blyth Valley—
The following wards in the local authority area of Castle Morpeth—
The following wards in the local authority area of Chester-le-Street—
The following wards in the local authority area of Darlington UA—
The following wards in the local authority area of Derwentside—
The following wards in the local authority area of Durham—
The following wards in the local authority area of Easington—
The following wards in the local authority area of Gateshead—
The following wards in the local authority area of Hartlepool UA—
The following wards in the local authority area of Middlesbrough UA—
The following wards in the local authority area of Newcastle upon Tyne—
The following wards in the local authority area of North Tyneside—
The following wards in the local authority area of Redcar and Cleveland UA—
The following wards in the local authority area of Sedgefield—
The following wards in the local authority area of South Tyneside—
The following wards in the local authority area of Stockton-on-Tees UA—
The following wards in the local authority area of Sunderland—
The following wards in the local authority area of Teesdale—
The following wards in the local authority area of Wansbeck—
The following wards in the local authority area of Wear Valley—
North West
The following wards in the local authority area of Allerdale—
The following wards in the local authority area of Barrow-in-Furness—
The following wards in the local authority area of Blackburn with Darwen UA—
The following wards in the local authority area of Bolton—
The following wards in the local authority area of Burnley—
The following wards in the local authority area of Copeland—
The following wards in the local authority area of Hyndburn—
The following wards in the local authority area of Knowsley—
The following wards in the local authority area of Liverpool—
The following wards in the local authority area of Oldham—
The following wards in the local authority area of Rochdale—
The following wards in the local authority area of Sefton—
The following wards in the local authority area of South Lakeland—
The following wards in the local authority area of St. Helens—
The following wards in the local authority area of West Lancashire—
The following wards in the local authority area of Wigan—
The following wards in the local authority area of Wirral—
Yorkshire and the Humber
The following wards in the local authority area of Barnsley—
The following wards in the local authority area of Doncaster—
The following wards in the local authority area of East Riding of Yorkshire UA—
The following wards in the local authority area of Kingston upon Hull; City of UA—
The following wards in the local authority area of North East Lincolnshire UA—
The following ward in the local authority area of North Lincolnshire UA—
The following wards in the local authority area of Rotherham—
The following ward in the local authority area of Selby—
The following wards in the local authority area of Sheffield—
The following wards in the local authority area of Wakefield—
East Midlands
The following ward in the local authority area of Amber Valley—
The following wards in the local authority area of Ashfield—
The following wards in the local authority area of Bassetlaw—
The following wards in the local authority area of Bolsover—
The following wards in the local authority area of Chesterfield—
The following ward in the local authority area of Gedling—
The following wards in the local authority area of Mansfield—
The following wards in the local authority area of Newark and Sherwood—
The following wards in the local authority area of North East Derbyshire—
The following wards in the local authority area of Nottingham UA—
West Midlands
The following wards in the local authority area of Birmingham—
The following wards in the local authority area of Bromsgrove—
The following wards in the local authority area of Coventry—
The following wards in the local authority area of Dudley—
The following wards in the local authority area of Newcastle-under-Lyme—
The following wards in the local authority area of Sandwell—
The following wards in the local authority area of Solihull—
The following wards in the local authority area of South Staffordshire—
The following wards in the local authority area of Stoke-on-Trent UA—
The following wards in the local authority area of Walsall—
The following wards in the local authority area of Wolverhampton—
East of England
The following wards in the local authority area of Luton UA—
The following wards in the local authority area of South Bedfordshire—
London
The following wards in the local authority area of Barking and Dagenham—
The following ward in the local authority area of Bexley—
The following wards in the local authority area of Greenwich—
The following ward in the local authority area of Havering—
The following wards in the local authority area of Newham—
South East
The following wards in the local authority area of Dover—
The following wards in the local authority area of Thanet—
South West
The following wards in the local authority area of Plymouth UA—
The following wards in the local authority area of South Hams—

WALES

The following wards in the local authority area of Cardiff—
The following wards in the local authority area of Flintshire—
The following wards in the local authority area of Newport—
The following wards in the local authority area of Powys—

SCOTLAND

The following wards in the local authority area of Clackmannanshire—
The following wards in the local authority area of Dundee City—
The following wards in the local authority area of East Ayrshire—
The following wards in the local authority area of East Dunbartonshire—
The following wards in the local authority area of Falkirk—
The following wards in the local authority area of Fife—
The following wards in the local authority area of Glasgow City—
The following wards in the local authority area of Inverclyde—
The following wards in the local authority area of North Ayrshire—
The following wards in the local authority area of North Lanarkshire—
The following wards in the local authority area of Renfrewshire—
The following wards in the local authority area of South Ayrshire—
The following wards in the local authority area of South Lanarkshire—
The following wards in the local authority area of Stirling—
The following wards in the local authority area of West Dunbartonshire—

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides that from 13th February 2007 the areas described in Schedule 1 as Tier 1 areas and the areas described in Schedule 2 as Tier 2 areas will be development areas for the purposes of the Industrial Development Act 1982 (the 1982 Act) and section 1 of the Derelict Land Act 1982. The Tier 1 areas described in Schedule 1 have been granted Assisted Areas status under Article 87(3)(a) of the Treaty establishing the European Community.

The Tier 2 areas described in Schedule 2 have been granted Assisted Areas status under Article 87(3)(c) of the Treaty establishing the European Community. This Order has not specified or designated any area an intermediate area under section 1 of the 1982 Act. Areas described in the Schedules are as they existed on the relevant dates given in article 2(2) and (3) of the Order.

The description of the areas in England and Wales in Schedule 1 is by reference to local authority areas, corresponding to the NUTS 2 area of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, and the NUTS 2 area of West Wales and the Valleys, as they existed on 21 June 2003. NUTS (Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics) areas are used by Eurostat, the European Commission’s Statistical Office, for presenting regional and local statistics. Description of the areas in Scotland in Schedule 1 is by reference to local government areas, a former district council, islands and parishes, corresponding to the area of operation of Highlands and Islands Enterprise on 31st March 2001, as defined by section 21 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990, as amended by the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994. This area also corresponds to the NUTS 2 area of Highlands and Islands, as it existed on 21 June 2003. Information as to the boundaries used is available from the Office for National Statistics at Cardiff Road, Newport, NP10 8XG or the Ordnance Survey at Romsey Road, Southampton SO16 4GU, for England and Wales, and from the General Register Office for Scotland at Ladywell House, Ladywell Road, Edinburgh, EH12 7TF, for Scotland.

The Highlands and Islands will have Tier 1 status until 31 December 2010. Its status will be reviewed by the European Commission during 2010.

Description of the areas in Schedule 2 is by reference to wards. All wards are defined by reference to the Census Area Statistics wards that were used for analysis following the 2001Census. For ease of reference, all wards are listed by reference to the relevant local authority areas. Information as to the boundaries of Census Area Statistics wards and local authority areas in England and Wales area available from the Office for National Statistics at the address given above, and in Scotland, from the General Register Office for Scotland at the address given above.

This Order revokes the Assisted Areas Order 2000 (article 4).

(1)

1982 c.52: section 1(4) was inserted by section 4 of the Co-operative Development Agency and Industrial Development Act 1984 (c.57), words in section 1(4) were omitted by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c.14); words in section 1(7) were omitted by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c.14).