Part 8: Development Corporations Membership Section 178: Removal of restrictions on membership of urban development corporations and new town development corporations Background
The previous legislative provisions for the governance of development corporations varied depending on the type of corporation. In some cases, there were prescribed caps on the number of other board members (excluding the chairman and deputy chair) a corporation can have.
	This section amends Schedule 26 to the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 and section 3 of the New Towns Act 1981. It removes the previous board member cap and the need to set board membership numbers out in an order establishing a New Town Development Corporation and an Urban Development Corporation, in England. This brings them in line with Mayoral Development Corporations and Locally-led New Town Development Corporations which have no upper cap.