Part 13: General Schedule 7: Plan making Section 15HE: Temporary direction pending possible use of intervention or default powers Background
Section 15HE replicates the former section 21A of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 which enabled the Secretary of State to issue a temporary holding direction to prevent a local planning authority from taking any step in relation to a plan, where the Secretary of State is considering the use of intervention powers.
	Procedural details relating to plan-making when intervention has occurred are set out in regulations, pursuant to the general regulation-making powers in former section 36 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. As with intervention powers, this approach has been carried forward.
	Local plan intervention powers are used sparingly but remain an important deterrent to help ensure compliance with statutory plan-making duties.