Part 13: General Schedule 7: Plan making Section 15B: Local plan timetable Effect
Section 15B(1) and (2) set out that all local planning authorities are required to prepare and maintain a local plan timetable which must specify matters including the geographical area that a local plan will cover and a timetable for its production. Amongst other things, local planning authorities are also required to specify any supplementary plans that they intend to produce, their subject matter and geographical extent. The Secretary of State may prescribe the form and content of the local plan timetable and further matters which the local plan timetable must deal with.
	Subsection (3) establishes that timetables for any joint plans must be consistent with the individual local plan timetables of each constituent authority.
	Subsection (4) sets out that a local plan timetable may incorporate a minerals and waste plan timetable where the local planning authority is also a minerals and waste planning authority.
	Subsection (5) gives the Secretary of State the power to prescribe the form and content of the timetable and any further matters that they must address.
	Subsections (6) and (7) provide the Secretary of State or Mayor of London with the power to prepare a local plan timetable for an authority which doesn’t have one and direct the authority to bring that timetable into effect, and also to direct the local planning authority to amend an existing timetable.
	Subsections (8) and (9) explain how a local planning authority can bring a timetable into effect, and that once in effect, the local planning authority must comply with it.
	Subsection (10) provides the Secretary of State with a power to set out in regulations when, or the circumstances in which, a timetable must be revised. Where regulations make such provision, there is also a power for the regulations to confer a direction making power. If exercised this would enable directions to be given to local planning authorities to revise their timetables.
	Subsection (11) clarifies that the provision in subsections (1) to (9) and section 15BA also apply to the revision of a timetable.
	Subsection (12) confirms that section 15BA contains further provisions in relation to directions given under subsections (6) and (7).