The Planning (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003

Regional development strategy: transitional arrangements for certain development plans

29.—(1) This Article applies to the following development plans (“excepted plans”) —

(a) the Cookstown Area Plan 2010;

(b) the Craigavon Area Plan 2010;

(c) the Dungannon and South Tyrone Area Plan 2010.

(2) Article 28 does not apply in relation to the making of an excepted plan.

(3) The following provisions—

(a) Article 3(1A) of the principal Order (policy of Department of the Environment under that Article to be in general conformity with regional development strategy); and

(b) Article 5 of the Strategic Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (NI 4) (departments exercising functions in relation to development to have regard to the regional development strategy),

do not apply to the Department of the Environment exercising functions under Part III of the principal Order in relation to the making of an excepted plan.

(4) Article 4(1A) of the principal Order (development plan for an area must be in general conformity with the regional development strategy) does not apply in relation to an excepted plan.

(5) The reference in paragraph (4) to an excepted plan is to the plan as adopted under Article 8 of the principal Order; and accordingly that paragraph ceases to apply in relation to an excepted plan if it is altered or replaced.