Part 13: General Schedule 7: Plan making Section 15LD: Policies map Effect
Subsection (1) requires a local planning authority to ensure that a policies map for its area is prepared and maintained, illustrating the geographic application of the allocations, policies and/or designations contained within any part of the development plan (as defined in section 38 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, as amended by section 92. This includes the local plan, the minerals and waste plan, and any spatial development strategies, supplementary plans and neighbourhood plans as may be applicable to the area.
	Subsection (2)(a) and (b) provide powers for the Secretary of State to prescribe, in regulations, the required form of, and content to be included in, the policies map, and when and under what circumstances it must be revised. The intention is that secondary legislation made under these powers may incorporate similar elements to the current requirements outlined in regulation 9(1)(a) of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) Regulations 2012 which, for example, require the use of Ordnance Survey maps; or additionally require a local planning authority to update the policies map when part of the development plan is revised.
	Subsection (2)(c) requires that the policies map be made available to the public.