Part 13: General Schedule 7: Plan making Section 15LE: Regulations Background
Section 15LE sets out a range of regulation making powers in relation to joint spatial development strategies, local plans, minerals and waste plans, supplementary plans and neighbourhood priorities statements. Under the former provisions of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, many of these powers were contained within former section 36. The powers in former section 36 covered a variety of areas but can be summarised as enabling the Secretary of State to produce regulations that give more detail and certainty to the process of producing local development documents, as well as data standards relating to them.
	Section 15LE sets out a similar broad range of regulation making powers as former section 36. It enables the Secretary of State to deliver secondary legislation that will provide detail on the process for producing different parts of the development plan, including the requirements for public consultation. Section 15LE includes powers to make regulations in relation to the form and content of, and the process for producing, new voluntary joint spatial development strategies and supplementary plans.
	Powers relating to data standards, previously in section 36 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, are replaced by new general powers in relation to data standards for planning data, set out in Chapter 1 of Part 3 (Planning Data).