Part 10A, Section 204V: Appeals Schedule 17: Planning functions of development corporations: minor and consequential amendments Effect
Paragraph 1 amends the heading of section 7 and amends section 77 of the New Towns Act 1981. This allows the conferral of planning functions to a New Town Development Corporation under new subsection 7A to be made by order using the negative parliamentary procedure.
	Paragraph 2 amends provisions in the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. Paragraph 2(2) amends section 7 (urban development corporations as the local planning authority) so that it is subject to section 8A, where the Homes and Communities Agency may become a local planning authority. Paragraph 2(3) inserts new section 7ZA into the TCPA 1990. This defines the local planning authority for development management purpose when a New Town Development Corporation becomes the local planning authority under new subsection 7A(2)(a) or (4)(a) of the New Towns Act 1981.
	Paragraph 2(4) amends section 7A (Mayoral development corporation as a local planning authority so that it is subject to section 8A, where the Homes and Communities Agency may become a local planning authority
	Paragraph 2(5) amends section 62B(5) of the TCPA 1990 to include New Town Development Corporations alongside existing development corporation models as a planning authority that cannot be designated for the purposes of allowing direct planning applications to the Secretary of State.
	Paragraph 2(6) updates the definition of ‘relevant authority’ to include New Town Development Corporations in relation to local finance considerations to be taken into account in planning decisions.
	Paragraph 2(7) updates the different types of development corporation that are subject to local highway authority restrictions when planning permission is granted to include New Town Development Corporations where they are the planning authority. This allows the Secretary of State, by order, to include provisions enabling a local highway authority to impose restrictions on planning permissions by a development corporation.
	Paragraph 3 amends Schedule 4 to the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. This includes New Town Development Corporation and Mayoral Development Corporations in the definition of local planning authority when they take on planning powers under new subsection 7ZA and subsection 7A respectively of the TCPA 1990.
	Paragraph 4 amends section 3 of the Planning (Hazardous Substances) Act 1990. This amends the definition of hazardous substances authorities to include all types of development corporation provided they take on these specified functions.
	Paragraph 5 amends section 205(5) of the Localism Act 2011 so that the reference relating to Urban Development Corporation should be read as Mayoral Development Corporations in relation to Part 2 of Schedule 29 to the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980