Leeds Development Corporation (Planning Functions) Order 1988
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1988 No. 1551
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
The Leeds Development Corporation (Planning Functions) Order 1988
Made 7th September 1988
Laid before Parliament 14th September 1988
Coming into force 5th October 1988
The Secretary of State for the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 149(1), (3) and (11) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 19801and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and commencment
1. This Order may be cited as the Leeds Development Corporation (Planning Functions) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 5th October 1988.
Interpretation
2. In this Order—
“the 1971 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 19712;
“the 1980 Act” means the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980;
“the development area” means the area designated as an urban development area by the Leeds Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 19883; and
“the development corporation” means the Leeds Development Corporation.
Planning functions of the development corporation
3. Subject to the provisions of articles 5 and 6 of this Order—
(a) the development corporation shall be the local planning authority for the development area, in place of any other authority which would otherwise be the local planning authority, for all the purposes of Part III of the 1971 Act in relation to all kinds of development;
(b) the development corporation shall have in the whole of the development area, and in place of any authority (except the Secretary of State) which would otherwise have them, the functions conferred by all the provisions of the 1971 Act specified in Part I of Schedule 29 to the 1980 Act.
Modifications of provisions of the 1971 Act
4. All the provisions of the 1971 Act specified in Part II of Schedule 29 to the 1980 Act shall have effect in relation to the development corporation and to the development area with all the modifications specified in that Part.
Transitional provision: planning applications
5.—(1) This article applies as respects any application for planning permission or for a consent, approval or determination under the 1971 Act or any order or regulation made or having effect under that Act which—
(a)
(a) was duly made before this Order came into force to an authority which ceases by virtue of the preceding provisions of this Order to be the planning authority responsible for determining the application (“the previous authority”); and
(b)
(b) has not been determined when this Order comes into force.
(a)
(a) (2) Subject to sub paragraph (b), except where the previous...
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