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Planning Bill

Enforcement and other matters - Miscellaneous - Joint regional and district planning documents

293: Requirements for joint regional and district planning documents

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"Rules for creating joint planning documents for regions and districts"

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When local authorities are preparing or changing a joint planning document, they must follow certain rules. You need to know that these rules are set out in section 292. The local authorities must apply the relevant requirements for the different parts of the joint planning document. The joint planning document has to be prepared in a certain way, following Schedules 2 and 3. You will see that the document must clearly say which parts are the regional spatial plan, the natural environment plan, and the land use plan. It must also say which local authority is responsible for each part of the document. If a local authority approves a joint planning document, it is treated as if the authority prepared and approved its own plan. This is true even if the other local authorities involved do not approve the document. There are also rules about how any joint committee set up to work on the document must be appointed and run, which are set out in the Local Government Act 2002 and section 292.

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Part 6Enforcement and other matters
Miscellaneous: Joint regional and district planning documents

293Requirements for joint regional and district planning documents

  1. This section sets out the requirements that apply to local authorities preparing or amending a joint planning document in accordance with section 292.

  2. The relevant local authorities must apply the following requirements as relevant for the documents comprising the joint planning document:

  3. for a regional spatial plan, the requirements of subpart 1 of Part 3 of this Act:
    1. for a natural environment plan, the requirements of subpart 1 of Part 3 of the Natural Environment Act 2025:
      1. for a land use plan, the requirements of subpart 2 of Part 3 of this Act.

        1. A joint planning document—

        2. must be prepared in accordance with Schedules 2 and 3, as applicable; and
          1. must clearly identify—
            1. the provisions of the document that are the regional spatial plan, the natural environment plan, and the land use plan, as the case may be; and
              1. which local authority is responsible for observing, and enforcing the observance of, each provision of the document.

              2. A joint planning document approved by a local authority is deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be a plan separately prepared and approved by that authority for its region or district, as the case may be.

              3. Subsection (4) applies whether or not the joint document is approved by any of the other local authorities concerned.

              4. Clauses 30 and 30A of Schedule 7 of the Local Government Act 2002 apply to the appointment and conduct of any joint committee set up for the purposes of preparing, implementing, or administering a combined document under this section and section 292.