Part 8: Development Corporations Planning functions Section 176: Mayoral development corporation as minerals and waste planning authority Background
Section 202 of the Localism Act 2011 makes provision for a Mayoral Development Corporation to become the local planning authority for the purposes, separately or collectively, of plan-making, development control and neighbourhood planning.
	This section amends section 202 which allows for the Mayor to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the Mayoral Development Corporation for the area should be the minerals and waste planning authority for the purposes of plan making. Previously, when Mayoral Development Corporations were conferred powers to be the local planning authority for the purposes of plan-making under Part 2 of the PCPA 2004, they were local planning authorities capable of preparing local development documents on a range of topics, including minerals and waste.