Availability of documents for inspection
(1) Subject to paragraph (3), documents made available for inspection pursuant to Part II of the 1990 Act or these Regulations by a local planning authority making, altering or replacing a statutory plan shall be made so available at the place and time specified by the authority when giving notice of their availability for inspection, and shall, unless the statutory plan proposals are withdrawn, remain so available until the expiration of six weeks from the date of publication of the notice of adoption, approval or rejection of the proposals.
(2) The local planning authority shall, on request and on payment of a reasonable charge, provide, as soon as practicable, a copy of any document made available for inspection mentioned in paragraph (1).
(3) Adopted proposals made available for inspection under regulation 20(2) and approved proposals made available for inspection under regulation 24(7)(c) shall remain so available until printed copies of the proposals are made available for inspection under regulation 27(1).
Availability of plans after adoption or approval
(1) As soon as practicable after proposals for a statutory plan or for the alteration or replacement of a statutory plan have been adopted or approved, the local planning authority which prepared the proposals shall secure that printed copies of the statutory plan, the statutory plan as altered, or the replacement plan, as the case may be, are available for inspection during normal office hours at their principal office and at such other places within their area as they consider appropriate and, on payment of a reasonable charge, for purchase.
(2) A local planning authority shall continue to make printed copies of a statutory plan, altered statutory plan, or replacement plan made available for inspection and purchase under paragraph (1) so available until the relevant plan is altered, further altered, or replaced, as the case may be.
Index
(1) A local planning authority shall keep an index containing the following information in respect of the development plan for their area–
(a) the title of any plan forming part of or constituting the development plan for their area;
(b) the date on which that plan was adopted or approved;
(c) the title and date of adoption or approval of any alteration to that plan;
(d) the date of the first publication of any notice given under these Regulations in respect of proposals for the making of a plan which will form part of or constitute the development plan for their area or for the alteration or replacement of such a plan; and
(e) the places at which any plan, alteration or notice listed in the index may be inspected.
(2) In a non-metropolitan area, the index kept by the local planning authority shall also contain the date of any statement supplied under section 35C or paragraph 47 of Schedule 4 to the 1991 Act, or prepared under regulations 30 or 36, in relation to a plan listed in the index and shall identify the places at which the statement may be inspected.
(3) A local planning authority shall also keep a map showing the boundary of any plan listed in their index.
(4) The index and map kept in accordance with this regulation shall be made available for inspection during normal office hours at the local planning authority’s principal office and at such other places within their area as they consider appropriate.
