HC Deb 25 July 1968 vol 769 cc183-4W
Mr. Julius Silverman

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he has yet made any provisional selection of the local planning authorities who will first be empowered to prepare development plans in the new form.

Mr. Greenwood

No formal action to bring the new system into operation in the area of any local planning authority can be taken until the Town and Country Planning Bill becomes law, but I am asking the authorities listed below whether they would be willing to prepare development plans for all or part of their area on the new basis. In doing so, I have asked for assurances that adequate arrangements exist or will be made for collaboration between the authorities in each group and that proper attention will be paid to the views of the public and of objectors to plans.

The following is the list:

  1. 1. Newcastle C.B.
    • Gateshead C.B.
    • Tynemouth C.B.
    • South Shields C.B.
    • Sunderland C.B.
    • Durham C.C.
    • Northumberland C.C.
  2. 2. Tees-side C.B.
  3. 3. Lancashire C.C.
    • Cheshire C.C.
    • Manchester C.B.
    • Liverpool C.B.
  4. 4. Birmingham C.B.
    • Dudley C.B.
    • Solihull C.B.
    • Walsall C.B.
    • Warley C.B.
    • West Bromwich C.B.
    • Wolverhampton C.B.
  5. 5. Leicester C.B.
    • Leicester C.C.
  6. 6. Norwich C.B.
    • Norfolk C.C.
  7. 7. Hampshire C.C.
    • Southampton C.B.
    • Portsmouth C.B.

Development Plans in the Greater London area will be brought within the new system under the arrangements set out in Schedule 1 to the Bill.

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