SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2 Development Plans: Transitional Provisions

F1Part IA Wales

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Amendments (Textual)

Incorporation of current policy in unitary development plan

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1

This paragraph applies where—

a

a unitary development plan is being prepared for the area of a local planning authority in Wales;

b

the local planning authority preparing that plan have published in the prescribed manner a statement in the prescribed form identifying a policy included in the plan as an existing policy;

c

one or more local plans is or, as the case may be, are together in force throughout the policy area; and

d

a local inquiry or other hearing is held for the purpose of considering any objection to the plan.

2

The person holding the inquiry or other hearing need not allow an objector to appear if he is satisfied that—

a

the objection is to a policy identified in the statement published under sub-paragraph (1)(b);

b

the policy so identified is an existing policy; and

c

there has been no significant change in circumstances affecting the existing policy since it first formed part of any plan mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(c).

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In this paragraph—

  • “ existing policy ” means a policy the substance of which (however expressed) was contained in the local plan or local plans mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(c);

  • “ policy ” includes a proposal; and

  • “ policy area ” means so much of the area of the local planning authority to which the policy concerned relates.