The Town and Country Planning (Strategic Development Plan) (Wales) Regulations 2021

Chapter 8 Withdrawal of SDP

Withdrawal

33.  Where an SDP is withdrawn under section 66(1) or 66A(2) of the 2004 Act(1), the CJC must as soon as reasonably practicable—

(a) publish a statement of that fact on its website;

(b) notify any body they engaged with under regulation 16(1)(a) of that fact;

(c) remove any copies, documents, matters and statements made available for inspection or published under regulation 18(2)(a), 18(2)(b), 21(a), 21(b) or 22(4)(b) from the places that they were made available for inspection or published;

(d) notify any person who made (and who has not withdrawn) a representation in accordance with regulation 22(1), of the withdrawal.

Withdrawal in absence of a direction

34.—(1) The steps required by paragraph (1)(a), (b) and (c) of regulation 18 are the steps specified for the purposes of section 66A(6)(b) of the 2004 Act.

(2) Where the CJC gives notice under section 66A(5)(a) of the 2004 Act, it must do so within the period of seven days beginning with the day on which it approves, by resolution, the withdrawal of the SDP.

(3) Such notice must include—

(a) reasons for the withdrawal,

(b) a copy of the report to the CJC which recommends the proposed withdrawal, and

(c) a copy of the CJC’s resolution to withdraw.

(4) The CJC must—

(a) publish the notice on its website, and

(b) make copies available for inspection at the places where the pre-deposit proposals documents and the statement of pre-deposit matters were made available for inspection under regulation 18(2)(a).

(5) Where giving a direction under section 66A(7) of the 2004 Act, the Welsh Ministers must—

(a) specify in the direction—

(i) what further information is required under section 66A(7)(a) of that Act (if any),

(ii) the extension of the notice period referred to in section 66A(5)(b) of that Act (if any), and

(b) publish the direction on their website and by such other means as they consider appropriate.

(6) For the purposes of section 66A(9) of the 2004 Act, the notice period is six weeks.

(1)

Sections 66 and 66A were substituted by section 13 of the 2015 Act.