117 Charges for meeting costs relating to neighbourhood planning

117  Charges for meeting costs relating to neighbourhood planning

(1)     The Secretary of State may with the consent of the Treasury make regulations providing for the imposition of charges for the purpose of meeting expenses incurred (or expected to be incurred) by local planning authorities in, or in connection with, the exercise of their neighbourhood planning functions.

(2)     A local planning authority's “neighbourhood planning functions” are any of their functions exercisable under any provision made by or under—

(a)     any of sections 61E to 61Q of, or Schedule 4B or 4C to, the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (neighbourhood development orders),

(b)     any of sections 38A to 38C of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (neighbourhood development plans), or

(c)     this section.

(3)     The regulations must secure—

(a)     that the charges are payable in relation to development

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