The Ebbsfleet Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 2015

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates three areas lying within Dartford Borough Council and Gravesham Borough Council as an urban development area under Part 16 (Urban Development) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (“the Act”), and establishes an urban development corporation under the Act for the purposes of regenerating the area. The area is shown outlined in red and shaded yellow on the map forming part of this Note.

The Order provides that the urban development corporation shall be called the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation, and that it shall have 9 members in addition to the chairman and the deputy chairman.

The constitution, proceedings and staffing of the development corporation are governed by Schedule 26 to the Act.

Prints of the Map referred to in article 2 of this Order are available for inspection during office hours at The Records and Information Governance Services, Deposited Documents Room F13, Ashdown House, Sedlescombe Road North, St. Leonards on Sea, East Sussex, TN37 7GA and at the following offices of the councils mentioned in article 2(2);

Planning Applications Group, Kent County Council, Invicta House, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 1XX;

Planning Services, Dartford Borough Council, Civic Centre, Home Gardens, Dartford, Kent, DA1 1DR;

Gravesham Borough Council, Civic Centre, Windmill Street, Gravesend, DA12 1AU.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

For information purposes only, a plan of the Ebbsfleet Urban Development Area appears below.