Sch 4B para 4
(1) Regulations may make provision as to requirements that must be complied with before proposals for a neighbourhood development order may be submitted to a local planning authority or fall to be considered by a local planning authority. (2) The regulations may in particular make provision— (a) as to the giving of notice and publicity, (b) as to the information and documents that are to be made available to the public, (c) as to the making of reasonable charges for anything provided as a result of the regulations, (d) as to consultation with and participation by the public, (e) as to the making and consideration of representations (including the time by which they must be made), (f) requiring prescribed steps to be taken before a proposal of a prescribed description falls to be considered by a local planning authority, and (g) conferring powers or imposing duties on local planning authorities, the Secretary of State or other public authorities. (3) The power to make regulations under this paragraph must be exercised to secure that— (a) prescribed requirements as to consultation with and participation by the public must be complied with before a proposal for a neighbourhood development order may be submitted to a local planning authority, and (b) a statement containing the following information in relation to that consultation and participation must accompany the proposal submitted to the authority— (i) details of those consulted, (ii) a summary of the main issues raised, and (iii) any other information of a prescribed description.