Housing and Planning Act 1986

PART II Consequential Amendments—England and Wales

1 In section 34(1) of the [1971 c. 78.] Town and Country Planning Act 1971 (registers to be kept by local planning authorities) at the end add " and also containing such information as may be so prescribed with respect to simplified planning zone schemes relating to zones in the authority's area ".

2 In section 41 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 (limit of duration of planning permission), in subsection (3) (exceptions) after paragraph (aa) insert—

“(ab) to any planning permission granted by a simplified planning zone scheme ;”.

3 In section 53(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 (application to determine whether planning permission required) after " scheme " insert" or simplified planning zone scheme ".

4 In section 242(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 (validity of certain instruments to be questioned under that Act and not otherwise), after paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa) a simplified planning zone scheme or an alteration of such a scheme whether before or after the adoption or approval of the scheme or alteration;”.

5 In section 244 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 (procedure for questioning certain instruments), after subsection (6) insert—

“(7) Subsections (1) and (2) of this section apply to a simplified planning zone scheme or an alteration of such a scheme as they apply to a structure plan and an alteration of such a plan, with the following modifications—

(a) for the references to Part II of this Act substitute references to Part LTI of this Act, and

(b) for the reference to regulations under section 18(1) of this Act substitute a reference to regulations under paragraph 13 of Schedule 8 A to this Act,

and with any other necessary modifications.”.

6 In section 287 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 (general provisions as to regulations and orders}—

(a) in subsection (4) (orders to be made by statutory instrument) after " 24," insert " 24E, ", and

(b) in subsection (5)(a) (orders subject to negative resolution procedure), after " section " insert " 24E, ".

7 In section 290(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 (interpretation), at the appropriate place insert—

• “simplified planning zone" and "simplified planning zone scheme " shall be construed in accordance with section 24A of this Act;”.