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PART 6General

Development plan schemes

22.—(1) In addition to those matters specified by section 20B of the Act, a development plan scheme is to indicate the anticipated timetable for constitution of the local development plan and must specify the quarter in which the planning authority expects to—

(a)publish its evidence report and its proposed local development plan,

(b)submit its proposed local development plan to the Scottish Ministers,

(c)adopt the proposed local development plan.

(2) If the timetable included in the development plan scheme differs from the timetable included in the development plan scheme last prepared by the planning authority, the development plan scheme must—

(a)identify the changes to the timetable,

(b)set out the reasons for the changes to the timetable.

(3) In this regulation—

(a)references to a “quarter” are to a quarter of the financial year (April- March) and means a period of three months ending at the end of June (“quarter 1”), at the end of September (“quarter 2”), at the end of December (“quarter 3”) or at the end of March (“quarter 4”), and

(b)a requirement to specify the quarter is a requirement to specify the numbered quarter (as numbered in paragraph (a)) and year in which in which an action is expected to be done.