The London Thames Gateway Development Corporation (Planning Functions) Order 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The London Thames Gateway Development Corporation (the corporation) was established by the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1642) for the purpose of regenerating the London Thames Gateway urban development area.

This Order describes, with the use of maps, the portions of the urban development area in which this Order confers planning functions on the development corporation (“the planning functions areas”)(article 3).

This Order makes the corporation the local planning authority in the planning functions area in relation specified kinds of development for the purposes of Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (control over development) (article 4). It also confers on the corporation the functions of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 which are specified in Part 1 of Schedule 29 to the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 as are set out in the table in the Schedule to this Order (article 5).

The Order applies other provisions of the 1990 Acts specified in Part 2 of Schedule 29 to the 1980 Act to the corporation and to the area, subject to the modifications set out in that Part (article 6).

Provision is made so that the former local planning authority may determine applications received but not determined by it prior to the date on which this Order comes into force but may transmit them to the corporation for determination with the agreement of the applicant, and must transmit them in a case where the Secretary of State has made a direction under article 14 of the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995 (article 7).

Provision is also made to leave responsibility for the payment of compensation under section 107, 108 or 115 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 or section 28 or 29 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 with the local planning authority who took the action giving rise to a right to compensation (article 8).

Prints of the maps referred to in article 3 of this Order are available for inspection at all reasonable hours in the Library of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE. The maps are also available at the offices of the London Borough of Barking, Planning and Transportation Department, Third Floor, Ripple Municipal Offices, 127 Ripple Road, Barking, IG11 7PB; the London Borough of Hackney, Planning Department, Dorothy Hodgkin House, 12 Reading Lane, London, E8 1HJ; the London Borough of Havering, Planning Department, 7th Floor, Mercury House, Mercury Gardens, Romford, RM1 3SL; the London Borough of Newham, Development Control, Town Hall Annexe, Barking Road, East Ham, London, E6 6EH; the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Planning Department, Town Hall, Mulberry Place, 5 Clove Crescent, London, E14 2BG; and the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation, 9th Floor, South Quay Plaza 3, 189 Marsh Wall, London E14 9SH.

A regulatory impact assessment was prepared in relation to the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 2004 and is available on the internet at www.odpm.gov.uk.. Alternatively copies can be obtained by post from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Zone 4/G10, Eland House, Bressenden Place, London SWIE 5DU. An additional regulatory impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as it has no additional impact on business, charities or voluntary bodies.