The Combined Authorities (Spatial Development Strategy) Regulations 2018

Public participation

7.—(1) The places at which the combined authority is required by section 335(2)(b) of the GLA Act (public participation) to make the proposed spatial development strategy available for inspection are—

(a) at the principal office of the combined authority, and such other places within the combined authority area as the combined authority considers appropriate, during normal office hours, and

(b) on the combined authority’s website.

(2) The proposed spatial development strategy shall be accompanied by an appraisal (referred to in these Regulations as a “sustainability appraisal”) of how it contributes towards the achievement of sustainable development.

(3) The local planning authority for each constituent council(1) shall make available for inspection at its principal office and during such period as is specified in the advertisement published pursuant to paragraph (4) a copy of the proposed spatial development strategy and of the sustainability appraisal; and the combined authority shall give to each authority such notice and such documents as they require in order to comply with this paragraph.

(4) The combined authority shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after it makes copies of the proposed spatial development strategy and of the sustainability appraisal available for inspection pursuant to section 335(2)(b), give notice by advertisement in the form set out in Form 1 in the Schedule to these Regulations.

(5) The persons, in addition to those persons set out in section 335(3)(a) to (c) and (e) of the GLA Act(2), to whom the combined authority is required to send a copy of the proposed spatial development strategy, are—

(a) Natural England,

(b) the Environment Agency, and

(c) the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England (“Historic England”).

(6) Subject to paragraph (7), the prescribed period for the purposes of section 335(7)(b) of the GLA Act is a period of not less than 12 weeks ending on such date as the combined authority shall specify in the notice published pursuant to paragraph (4).

(7) Where the combined authority makes available pursuant to section 335(2)(b) of the GLA Act proposed alterations to the spatial development strategy which in the combined authority’s opinion constitute minor alterations, the prescribed period for the purposes of section 335(7)(b) of the GLA Act is a period of not less than six weeks ending on such date as the combined authority shall specify in the notice published pursuant to paragraph (4).

(8) The period in paragraphs (6) and (7) begins with the date on which a notice given pursuant to paragraph (4) is first published in a newspaper.

(9) A representation is made in accordance with these Regulations for the purposes of section 335(7)(a) of the GLA Act if it is made in writing and addressed to the combined authority at the address indicated in the notice published pursuant to paragraph (4).

(10) The combined authority shall, from the date referred to in paragraph (6) until the proposed spatial development strategy is published or withdrawn, make available for inspection at those places at which the proposed spatial development strategy was made available for inspection, a copy of all representations made in accordance with these Regulations.

(11) The combined authority shall not be required to have regard to any representations made in respect of the spatial development strategy after the date specified in the notice published pursuant to paragraph (4).

(1)

See section 350 of the GLA Act 1999 (as modified by S.I 2016/1267, S.I 2017/430 and S.I 2017/126 for meaning of “constituent council”.

(2)

Section 335(3) of the GLA Act was amended by the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s 228(2)(c) and also modified by S.I 2016/1267, S.I 2017/430 and S.I 2017/126.