Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill: Schedule 13 - Planning functions of development corporations: minor and consequential amendments
Amendments made: 37, page 317, line 16, at end insert—
“(5) In section 62B(5) (planning authorities that cannot be designated for the purposes of allowing direct planning applications to the Secretary of State), after paragraph (c) insert—
‘(ca) a development corporation established under section 3 of the New Towns Act 1981;’.
(6) In section 70(4) (definitions relating to local finance considerations to be taken into account in planning decisions), in the definition of ‘relevant authority’, after paragraph (e) insert—
‘(ea) a development corporation established under section 3 of the New Towns Act 1981;’.
(7) In paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 (local highway authority restrictions on grant of planning permission)—
(a) in sub-paragraph (2), for the words from ‘is to be’, where they first occur, to ‘2011,’ substitute ‘does not include a development corporation planning authority;’;
(b) in sub-paragraph (3), for the words from ‘an’ to ‘local planning authority,’ in the second place it occurs, substitute ‘a development corporation planning authority’;
(c) after sub-paragraph (3) insert—
‘(4) In this paragraph, “development corporation planning authority” means—
(a) an urban development corporation which is the local planning authority by virtue of an order under section 149 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980,
(b) a development corporation established under section 3 of the New Towns Act 1981 which is the local planning authority by virtue of an order under section 7A of that Act, or
(c) a Mayoral development corporation which is the local planning authority by virtue of an order under section 198(2) of the Localism Act 2011.’”