Part 1 Neighbourhood Development Orders

SCHEDULE 9 Neighbourhood Planning

Section 116

Part 1 Neighbourhood Development Orders

1

The Town and Country Planning Act 1990 is amended as follows.

2

After section 61D insert—

“Neighbourhood development orders
61E Neighbourhood development orders

(1)     Any qualifying body is entitled to initiate a process for the purpose of requiring a local planning authority in England to make a neighbourhood development order.

(2)     A “neighbourhood development order†is an order which grants planning permission in relation to a particular neighbourhood area specified in the order—

(a)     for development specified in the order, or

(b)     for development of any class specified in the order.

(3)     Schedule 4B makes provision about the process for the making of neighbourhood development orders, including—

(a)     provision for independent examination of orders proposed by qualifying bodies, and

(b)     provision for the holding of referendums on orders proposed by those bodies.

(4)     A local planning authority to whom a proposal for the making of a neighbourhood development order has been made—

(a)     must make a neighbourhood development order to which the proposal relates if in each applicable referendum under that Schedule more than half of those voting have voted in favour

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