PART IILocal Government Reorganisation in Blackburn and Blackpool

Planning functions5.

(1)

The structure plan applying immediately before the reorganisation date to Lancashire, and any proposals prepared before that date for the alteration or replacement of that plan, shall be treated as if they had been prepared jointly by the County Council, the Blackburn Council and the Blackpool Council; and section 50 of the Town and Country Planning Act 19907 (“the 1990 Act”) shall apply accordingly.

(2)

In relation to the Blackburn Council or the Blackpool Council—

(a)

section 36(5) of the 1990 Act (which provides that a local plan shall not contain policies in respect of minerals or waste) shall not apply;

(b)

subsection (1) of section 37 of that Act (minerals local plans) shall have effect as if, after the words “local plan”, there were added the words “or include in their local plan their detailed policies in respect of development consisting of the winning and working of minerals or involving the deposit of mineral waste”; and

(c)

subsection (2) of section 38 of that Act (waste policies) shall have effect as if, after paragraph (b), there were added the following—

“or

(b)

include their waste policies in their local plan.”