Part 13: General Schedule 7: Plan making Section 15HB: Secretary of State powers where local planning authority fails to ensure design code Effect
Subsection (1) enables the Secretary of State to intervene if they think a local planning authority are unlikely to comply, or have not complied, with the requirement in section 15F(1) which requires the development plan for each area to include a design code.
	Subsections (2) and (3) set out what action the Secretary of State may take and a requirement for the Secretary of State to give reasons for any use of intervention powers under this section.