The Combined Authorities (Spatial Development Strategy) Regulations 2018

Publication

9.—(1) The prescribed period for the purposes of section 337(4)(b) of the GLA Act (publication) is the relevant period determined in accordance with paragraphs (6) to (8) of regulation 7.

(2) The combined authority shall not publish the spatial development strategy unless:

(a) The combined authority has sent to the Secretary of State—

(i) a statement of its intention to publish the spatial development strategy,

(ii) a copy of the spatial development strategy which it intends to publish, and

(iii) where the combined authority proposes not to accept any recommendation contained in the report of the panel, a statement of its reasons for not accepting that recommendation; and

(b) a period of six weeks or such longer period as the Secretary of State in writing requires, have elapsed beginning with the date notified to the combined authority in writing by the Secretary of State as the date he received the latest of those statements and that copy.

(3) When the combined authority publishes the spatial development strategy it shall:

(a) give notice by advertisement in the form set out in Form 3 in the Schedule to these Regulations;

(b) serve notice in similar form on the persons specified in section 335(3)(c) and (d) of the GLA Act;

(c) make available for inspection at those places at which the proposed spatial development strategy was made available for public inspection—

(i) a copy of the spatial development strategy,

(ii) a copy of any direction given by the Secretary of State under section 337(7) of the GLA Act,

(iii) a copy of any written statement of the Secretary of State indicating for the purposes of section 337(8)(a) of the GLA Act that the combined authority has satisfied the Secretary of State that the combined authority has made the modifications to the proposed spatial development strategy necessary to conform with any such direction; and

(iv) where the combined authority has not accepted any recommendation contained in the report of the panel, a statement of its reason for not accepting that recommendation; and

(d) send to the Secretary of State and to each constituent council a copy of the spatial development strategy, the notice published pursuant to sub-paragraph (a), and any statement of the reasons prepared pursuant to sub-paragraph (c)(iv).