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# The Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Commencement No. 5) and English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (Commencement No. 5) Regulations 2026

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

2026 No. 1157 (C. 98)
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, ENGLAND
The Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Commencement No. 5) and English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (Commencement No. 5) Regulations 2026
Made
3rd November 2026
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 118 (2) (g) and (8) of the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 and section 108 (6) and (8) of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026.

## 1 Citation and interpretation {#regulation-1}

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Commencement No. 5) and English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (Commencement No. 5) Regulations 2026.
(2) In these Regulations—
“the 2025 Act” means the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025;
“the 2026 Act” means the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026.

## 2 Provisions of the 2025 Act coming into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made {#regulation-2}

The following provisions of the 2025 Act come into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made—
(a) section 58(3) (spatial development strategies), so far as it relates to the provision of Schedule 2 brought into force by paragraph (b);
(b) paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 (section 58: minor and consequential amendments).

## 3 Provisions of the 2025 Act coming into force on 26th November 2026 {#regulation-3}

The following provisions of the 2025 Act, so far as not already commenced, come into force on 26th November 2026—
(a) section 58 (spatial development strategies);
(b) Schedule 2 (section 58: minor and consequential amendments).

## 4 Provision of the 2026 Act coming into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made {#regulation-4}

Section 39 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (prioritisation of development of brownfield land), so far as not already commenced, comes into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made.