PART IIILOCAL GOVERNMENT REORGANISATION IN PETERBOROUGH

Structural change

5.  The functions of the County Council in relation to Peterborough shall, subject to the following provisions of this Part and to any other relevant provision, be transferred to the Peterborough Council.

Fire services

6.—(1) In this article —

“the 1947 Act” means the Fire Services Act 1947;(1) and

“the relevant area” means the area comprising Cambridgeshire (as constituted on and after the reorganisation date) and Peterborough (as so constituted).

(2) Peterborough shall, subject to any combination scheme under the 1947 Act, become the area of a fire authority for the purposes of that Act.

(3) For the purposes of the making of a combination scheme with respect to the relevant area before the reorganisation date in accordance with section 10 of the 1947 Act (power to make schemes in advance of alterations to local government areas), section 5(2) of that Act shall have effect, in relation to that area, as if —

(a)in paragraphs (a) and (d) of that subsection, for “the constituent authorities”, wherever those words occur, there were substituted “the council of the county of Cambridgeshire”; and

(b)in paragraphs (e) and (f) of that subsection, for “any of the constituent authorities” there were substituted “the council of the county of Cambridgeshire”.

(4) Section 10 of the 1947 Act shall have effect, in relation to the relevant area, as if after the word “but” there were inserted the words “, except so far as it relates to the constitution of an authority as the fire authority for the combined area constituted by the scheme and the performance by that authority of any functions necessary for bringing the scheme into full operation on that date,”.

Planning functions

7.—(1) The structure plan applying immediately before the reorganisation date to Cambridgeshire 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 and the Peterborough Council; and section 50 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(2) (“the 1990 Act”) shall apply accordingly.

(2) In relation to the Peterborough 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

(c)include their waste policies in their local plan.”.