Part 1: Planning Local development documents Schedule 2: County council’s default powers in relation to development plan documents
Schedule 2 amends Schedule A1 to the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. That Schedule enables the Secretary of State to invite the Mayor of London or a combined authority to prepare a development plan document for an authority in their respective areas. Intervention is permitted only where the Secretary of State thinks that a local planning authority are failing or omitting to do anything it is necessary for them to do in connection with the preparation, revision or adoption of the document. The amendment enables the Secretary of State to additionally invite a county council to prepare a document for a local planning authority in their area.
	Where a county council accepts the invitation, they are responsible for preparing the document and having it examined. They may then approve the document (or approve it subject to modifications recommended by the inspector) or direct the local planning authority to consider adopting it. The Secretary of State may ‘call in’ or require modifications to be made to a document being prepared by a county council as he or she can in relation to any other development plan document.
	This schedule extends to England and Wales but applies to England only.