Planning and Development Act 2024

Automatic revocation of urban area plans, priority area plans and coordinated area plans in certain circumstances

77. (1) Where a planning authority varies a development plan or makes a new development plan and the development plan as varied or the new development plan, as the case may be, provides that a settlement or part of a settlement shall no longer be the subject of an urban area plan or a priority area plan, any such plan in force shall be deemed to be revoked and shall cease to have effect on the date upon which the variation or the new development plan comes into effect.

(2) In preparing a new development plan or a variation of an existing development plan, if subsection (1) would apply to the proposed new plan or the existing plan as proposed to be varied, the planning authority shall take account of the effects of the revocation of the urban area plan or priority area plan concerned in carrying out any—

(a) screening for strategic environmental assessment,

(b) strategic environmental assessment,

(c) screening for appropriate assessment, and

(d) appropriate assessment,

in respect of the proposed new plan or proposed variation, as the case may be.

(3) Where a regional assembly revises a regional spatial and economic strategy or makes a new regional spatial and economic strategy and the regional spatial and economic strategy as revised or the new regional spatial and economic strategy, as the case may be, provides that a settlement or the part of a settlement shall no longer be the subject of a coordinated area plan, any such plan in force shall be deemed to be revoked and shall cease to have effect on the date upon which the revised or new regional spatial and economic strategy comes into effect.

(4) In preparing a new regional spatial and economic strategy or a revision to an existing regional spatial and economic strategy, if subsection (3) would apply to the proposed new strategy or the existing strategy as proposed to be revised, the regional assembly shall take account of the effects of the revocation of the coordinated area plan concerned in carrying out any—

(a) screening for strategic environmental assessment,

(b) strategic environmental assessment,

(c) screening for appropriate assessment, and

(d) appropriate assessment,

in respect of the new strategy or proposed revision, as the case may be.