Part 13: General Schedule 7: Plan making Section 15CC: Supplementary plans Background
Supplementary Plans are a new type of document that may be prepared by a relevant plan-making authority (as defined in section 15LH(2)), and replace ‘supplementary planning documents’ prepared under existing legislation, which did not have the weight of the previous development plan (and whose status can, in practice, be uncertain). New section 15CC sets out the legislative basis for supplementary plans, including the nature of the policies that they may contain. Section 15DB out the process for the independent examination of supplementary plans. There are certain limits on the allowable scope of supplementary plans (either by subject matter or geographically), so that they do not subvert the role of the local plan as the principal planning policy framework for the area of a local planning authority.