This Statutory Instrument has been published in substitution of the S.I. of the same number which was not laid before Parliament due to an administrative error. It is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument. These Regulations have now been laid before Parliament and no other changes have been made apart from the insertion of the omitted italic date laid cross-heading on page 1.
2021 No. 151
Town And Country Planning, England & Wales

The High Speed Rail (West Midlands – Crewe) (Qualifying Authorities) Regulations 2021

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 13(1) of Schedule 17 to the High Speed Rail (West Midlands – Crewe) Act 20211.

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the High Speed Rail (West Midlands – Crewe) (Qualifying Authorities) Regulations 2021 and come into force on 12th February 2021.

Undertakings given by local authorities2.

The planning authorities specified in the Schedule had, on or before the day on which the Bill for the High Speed Rail (West Midlands – Crewe) Act 2021 was reported from Select Committee in the House of Lords, given the Secretary of State undertakings with respect to the handling of the planning matters arising under Schedule 17 to that Act which the Secretary of State considered satisfactory and have not subsequently been released from their undertakings.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State
Department for Transport

SCHEDULEQualifying Authorities

Regulation 2

  • Cheshire East Council

  • East Staffordshire Borough Council

  • Lichfield District Council

  • Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council

  • Shropshire Council

  • Stafford Borough Council

  • Staffordshire County Council

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations specify the planning authorities which are qualifying authorities for the purposes of Schedule 17 to the High Speed Rail (West Midlands – Crewe) Act 2021. Schedule 17 establishes a planning regime that seeks to give the qualifying authorities an appropriate degree of control over the detailed planning aspects of the Phase 2a stage of the HS2 programme.