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(1)After the date specified by virtue of subsection (8) of section 17, the planning authority are—
(a)having regard to such representations as timeously may have been made to them as respects their main issues report, to prepare, and to publish in such manner as was prescribed under subsection (6) of that section, a proposed local development plan,
(b)to send a copy of that proposed plan to each key agency,
(c)to notify any person who timeously has made representations under section 17 that the proposed plan has been published and of where a copy of it is available for inspection (and at what reasonable times),
(d)to consult, with regard to the proposed plan, the key agencies and such persons as may be prescribed, and
(e)in such circumstances as may be prescribed, to give notice—
(i)in such form,
(ii)of such matter, and
(iii)to such persons,
as may be specified in the regulations in question.
(2)Publication under subsection (1)(a) is to include specification of a date (being a date not less than 6 weeks after the date of publication) by which any representations with respect to the proposed local development plan must be made to the authority.
(3)After the date specified by virtue of subsection (2), the planning authority may modify the proposed local development plan so as to take account of—
(a)any representations timeously made to them as respects that proposed plan (or of any matters arising out of representations so made),
(b)any matters arising in consultation under subsection (1)(d), and
(c)any minor drafting or technical matters.
(4)Where the authority decide to make no modifications under subsection (3), or any modifications under that subsection are not of a kind prescribed for the purposes of subsection (5) (or mentioned in subsection (8)), the authority—
(a)are to submit the proposed local development plan to the Scottish Ministers together with—
(i)a report as to the extent to which the authority's actings with regard to consultation and the involvement of the public at large have conformed with (or have gone beyond the requirements of) the authority's current participation statement, and
(ii)a copy of their proposed action programme for the plan,
(b)are to publish the plan in such manner as may be prescribed, and
(c)if no request is to be made under section 19(1) are, in so publishing it, to advertise their intention to adopt it.
(5)Where the authority make under subsection (3) modifications of a prescribed kind, the authority are—
(a)to publish in such manner as was prescribed under section 17(6) the proposed local development plan as modified, and
(b)to give notice—
(i)in such form,
(ii)of such matter, and
(iii)to such persons,
as may be specified in the regulations in question.
(6)Publication under subsection (5)(a) is to include specification of a date (being a date not less than 6 weeks after the date of publication) by which any representations with respect to the proposed local development plan must be made to the authority and, after that date, the authority may further modify the proposed plan so as to take account of—
(a)any representations timeously made to them as respects that proposed plan (or of any matters arising out of representations so made), and
(b)any minor drafting or technical matters.
(7)Subsections (4) and (5) apply in respect of modifications under subsection (6) as they apply in respect of modifications under subsection (3).
(8) But if the authority consider that modifications are requisite and are such as would change the underlying aims or strategy of the proposed plan (in subsection (9) referred to as the “ original plan ”) they are not to modify it (or submit it or publish it unmodified) but are to prepare and publish under subsection (1) a new proposed local development plan.
(9)In its application to any such new plan subsection (1) is to be construed as if references to representations made timeously as respects the main issues report (and to any person timeously making representations) included references to representations so made as respects the original plan (and to any person so making representations with respect to the original plan).
(10)It is the duty of a key agency to co-operate with the planning authority in the preparation of the authority's proposed local development plan.]
Textual Amendments
F1Pt. 2 substituted (19.5.2008 for specified purposes, 25.6.2008 for specified purposes, 28.2.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 17), ss. 2, 59(2) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.S.I. 2008/165, arts. 1, 2 and S.S.I. 2008/427, arts. 1(1), 2-5); S.S.I. 2008/164, art. 2(1)(2), sch.; S.S.I. 2009/70, art. 2, sch.
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