Part 13: General Schedule 7: Plan making Section 15H: Power to require Secretary of State approval Background
The former provisions of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 relating to local plan intervention provided the Secretary of State with a range of powers to intervene in local plan making if considered necessary. The new sections inserted into the 2004 Act by this Act maintain and consolidate all former interventions powers.
	Section 15H replicates the former power in former section 21(4) that enabled the Secretary of State to direct a local planning authority to submit a Local Plan to the Secretary of State for approval.