Part 13: General Schedule 7: Plan making Section 15BB: Minerals and waste plan timetable Background
Former section 16 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 required that county councils prepare and maintain a ‘minerals and waste development scheme’. Section 15 of the Act (with some exceptions) relating to local development schemes applied in relation to a minerals and waste development scheme as it applied in relation to a local development scheme.
	The scheme must specify (among other matters) the development plan documents that the county council intends to prepare and the timetable for their preparation. The minerals and waste development scheme helps local communities and other interested stakeholders to understand which documents are due to be prepared and the stages at which they can get involved.
	To replace former section 16 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, new section 15BB retains the concept of a public timetable for plans relating to minerals and waste and retains the intervention powers. However, the intention is to use regulations under section 15B(5)(a) (which, by virtue of section 15BB(4), applies to minerals and waste plan timetables) and data standards powers in Chapter 1 of Part 3 (Planning Data) to require minerals and waste planning authorities to make the relevant data publicly available in a prescribed digital format.