London Government Act 1963

25 Development plans

(1) In the application of the Planning Act to Greater London, sections 4(1) and (5) and 6(1) and (2) (which relate to the submission or amendment of development plans) shall not apply but the provisions of this and the next following section shall have effect in place thereof.

(2) Subject to the provisions of any order under section 84 of this Act, any development plans under the Planning Act operative on 31st March 1965 which relate, or so far as they relate, to any part of Greater London shall together constitute as from 1st April 1965 the initial development plan for Greater London.

(3) The Greater London Council shall cause to be carried out a survey of Greater London and shall, within such period as the Minister may allow, submit to the Minister a report of that survey and a general development plan for Greater London, to be known as the Greater London development plan, which, subject to any regulations made (by virtue of section 27(5)(e) of this Act) under section 10 of the Planning Act, shall lay down considerations of general policy with respect to the use of land in the various parts of Greater London, including in particular guidance as to the future road system, and may make any necessary consequential modifications in the initial development plan aforesaid; and as from the date when the Greater London development plan becomes operative, that plan and the initial development plan aforesaid with any modifications therein made by the Greater London development plan shall together constitute the interim development plan for Greater London.

(4) Within such period as the Minister may allow after the Greater London development plan becomes operative, each London borough council shall as respects their borough, and the Common Council shall as respects the City, carry out on behalf of the Greater London Council such further survey, if any, as the borough council or Common Council may consider necessary or as the Greater London Council may direct, and submit to the Greater London Council a report on any such further survey and a local development plan which, subject to any such regulations as aforesaid, shall restate as respects the borough or, as the case may be, the City the relevant provisions of the initial development plan aforesaid as modified by the Greater London development plan with any alterations and additions appearing to them necessary or expedient which are consistent with the Greater London development plan ; and, without prejudice to section 27 (1) of this Act, the Greater London Council shall within such further period as the Minister may allow forward any such reports and those local development plans to the Minister with any observations thereon by that Council.

(5) The development plan for the purposes of the Planning Act for any London borough or, as the case may be, the City shall be the following, as amended from time to time by virtue of any provision of the two next following sections, that is to say—

(a) as from 1st April 1965 until the Greater London development plan becomes operative, the relevant provisions of the initial development plan aforesaid ;

(b) as from the date when the Greater London development plan becomes operative until the date when the local development plan submitted by the borough council or Common Council becomes operative, the relevant provisions of the interim development plan aforesaid;

(c) as from the date when the said local development plan becomes operative, that plan together with the Greater London development plan ;

and accordingly section 101 (5) of the Planning Act shall not apply to Greater London.