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Town and Country Planning (Prescription of County Matters) (England) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 1033 of 2003).

Country/Territory
United Kingdom
Territorial subdivision
England
Document type
Regulation
Date
2003
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Land & soil, Waste & hazardous substances
Keyword
Land-use planning Waste management
Geographical area
Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Entry into force notes
Entry into force on 28 April 2003.
Abstract

These Regulations prescribe classes of uses and operations which are to be "county matters" for the purposes of paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. The following classes of operations and uses are prescribed as "county matters": (1) The use of land, the carrying out of building, engineering or other operations or the erection of plant or machinery for the purposes of recovering, treating, storing, processing, sorting, transferring, or depositing of waste; Operations and uses ancillary to the purposes in (1) above, including development relating to access to highways. The effect of these Regulations are that the functions of a local planning authority of determining applications which relate to "county matters" as prescribed by these Regulations shall be exercised by the county planning authority.

Full text
English
Website
www.opsi.gov.uk

References - Legislation

Implements

Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (1990 Chapter 8).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 1990 (2017)

Keyword: Environmental planning, Policy/planning, Forestry protection measures, Forest management/forest conservation, Land-use planning, Institution, Expropriation, Enforcement/compliance, Offences/penalties, Soil rehabilitation, Protected area, National parks

Source: FAO, FAOLEX