Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004

18 Statement of community involvement

(1) The local planning authority must prepare a statement of community involvement.

(2) The statement of community involvement is a statement of the authority’s policy as to the involvement in the exercise of the authority’s functions under sections 19, 26 and 28 of this Act and Part 3 of the principal Act of persons who appear to the authority to have an interest in matters relating to development in their area.

(3) For the purposes of sections 19(2) and 24 the statement of community involvement is not a local development document.

(4) Section 20 applies to the statement of community involvement as if it were a development plan document.

(5) But in section 20(5)(a)—

(a) the reference to section 19 must be construed as if it does not include a reference to subsection (2) of that section;

(b) the reference to section 24(1) must be ignored.

(6) In the following provisions of this Part references to a development plan document include references to the statement of community involvement—

(a) section 22;

(b) section 23(2) to (5).