(1)The Minister may from time to time, after consultation with the Council, with the councils of the London boroughs and with the Common Council, direct that, for the purposes of regulations made by the Minister of Housing and Local Government under section 24(6) of the London Government Act 1963 (which enables that Minister by regulations to require particular applications, or applications of a particular class, for planning permission for development in Greater London to be referred in certain cases to that Minister or to the Council before they are dealt with by the local planning authority), metropolitan roads and proposed metropolitan roads shall be divided into categories specified in the direction; and any such regulations—
(a)may designate a class of development, or a class of applications for planning permission for development, by reference to a particular category or categories only of those so specified ; and
(b)may designate a class of such applications by reference to those only of the said roads included in a particular category or categories so specified in the case of which the Council have given to the local planning authority written notice containing such particulars as may be prescribed by the regulations of proposals by the Council with respect to the roads in question of such class as may be so prescribed, being proposals for the construction, improvement or alteration of those roads or for the regulation of means of access between premises and those roads.
(2)The Council shall prepare and maintain a list of, and a map showing, the metropolitan roads and the proposed metropolitan roads included in each respectively of the categories for the time being provided for by directions under subsection (1) of this section and shall deposit a copy of that list and of that map with each of the councils of the London boroughs and the Common Council, and the Council and each of those other authorities shall make that fist and map, or as the case may be the copies thereof so deposited with them, available for inspection by the public at all reasonable hours.
(3)In this section the expression " proposed metropolitan road " means land which is not a proposed highway as defined by section 295(1) of the [1959 c. 25.] Highways Act 1959, but in the case of which—
(a)the Council have applied to the Minister for the classification as a principal road of the highway proposed to be constructed on it; or
(b)the Council have given written notice to the local planning authority that the Council consider that it should be used for the provision of a metropolitan road.