Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023

Prospective

145 Use of CLA receipts in an area to which section 144(1) duty does not relate E+W

(1) Subsection (2) applies where—

(a) there is an area to which a particular duty under section 144(1) relates, and

(b) there is also an area to which that duty does not relate (“the uncovered area”).

(2) CLA regulations may provide that the local planning authority that receives CLA receipts in respect of development in the uncovered area may apply the CLA receipts, or cause them to be applied, to—

(a) support development by funding the provision, improvement, replacement, operation or maintenance of infrastructure,

(b) support development of the uncovered area, or of any part of that area, by funding anything else that is concerned with addressing demands that development places on an area, or

(c) funding the operation of community land auction arrangements in relation to the local planning authority’s area.

(3) The regulations may make provision about circumstances in which the authority may apply a specified amount of CLA receipts, or cause a specified amount of CLA receipts to be applied, towards specified purposes which are not mentioned in subsection (2).

(4) Provision under subsection (2)(a) or (b) may relate to the whole, or part only, of the uncovered area.

(5) Provision under subsection (2) may relate—

(a) to all CLA receipts (if any) received in respect of the area to which the provision relates, or

(b) such part of those CLA receipts as is specified in, or determined under or in accordance with, CLA regulations.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 145 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 255(4)