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(1)Section 70 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (determination of applications for planning permission: general considerations) is amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (2) (matters to which local planning authority must have regard in dealing with applications) after paragraph (a) insert—
“(aza)a post-examination draft neighbourhood development plan, so far as material to the application,”.
(3)Before subsection (4) insert—
“(3B)For the purposes of subsection (2)(aza) (but subject to subsections (3D) and (3E)) a draft neighbourhood development plan is a “post-examination draft neighbourhood development plan” if—
(a)a local planning authority have made a decision under paragraph 12(4) of Schedule 4B with the effect that a referendum or referendums are to be held on the draft plan under that Schedule,
(b)the Secretary of State has directed under paragraph 13B(2)(a) of that Schedule that a referendum or referendums are to be held on the draft plan under that Schedule,
(c)an examiner has recommended under paragraph 13(2)(a) of Schedule A2 to the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (examination of modified plan) that a local planning authority should make the draft plan, or
(d)an examiner has recommended under paragraph 13(2)(b) of that Schedule that a local planning authority should make the draft plan with modifications.
(3C)In the application of subsection (2)(aza) in relation to a post-examination draft neighbourhood development plan within subsection (3B)(d), the local planning authority must take the plan into account as it would be if modified in accordance with the recommendations.
(3D)A draft neighbourhood development plan within subsection (3B)(a) or (b) ceases to be a post-examination draft neighbourhood development plan for the purposes of subsection (2)(aza) if—
(a)section 38A(4)(a) (duty to make plan) or (6) (cases in which duty does not apply) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 applies in relation to the plan,
(b)section 38A(5) (power to make plan) of that Act applies in relation to the plan and the plan is made by the local planning authority,
(c)section 38A(5) of that Act applies in relation to the plan and the local planning authority decide not to make the plan,
(d)a single referendum is held on the plan and half or fewer of those voting in the referendum vote in favour of the plan, or
(e)two referendums are held on the plan and half or fewer of those voting in each of the referendums vote in favour of the plan.
(3E)A draft neighbourhood development plan within subsection (3B)(c) or (d) ceases to be a post-examination draft neighbourhood development plan for the purposes of subsection (2)(aza) if—
(a)the local planning authority make the draft plan (with or without modifications), or
(b)the local planning authority decide not to make the draft plan.
(3F)The references in subsection (3B) to Schedule 4B are to that Schedule as applied to neighbourhood development plans by section 38A(3) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.”
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Act excluded in part (22.7.2020) by The Norfolk Vanguard Offshore Wind Farm Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/706), arts. 1, 7(2) (with arts. 41, 42, Sch. 16 para. 66)
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I1S. 1 in force at 19.7.2017 by S.I. 2017/767, reg. 2(a)
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