Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004

15LH Interpretation

(1) This section has effect for the purposes of this Part. (2) Each of the following is a relevant plan-making authority— (a) the Mayor of London; (b) a local planning authority; (c) a minerals and waste planning authority. (3) In this Part (unless a contrary intention appears)— “affordable housing” means— social housing within the meaning of Part 2 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008, and any other description of housing that may be prescribed; “constituent authority”, in relation to a joint committee, must be construed in accordance with section 15J(3); “joint local plan” must be construed in accordance with section 15I(1); “joint local plan agreement” must be construed in accordance with section 15I(2); “joint local plan direction” must be construed in accordance with section 15I(3); “joint spatial development strategy” means a strategy adopted by local planning authorities under section 15AD or, as the context requires, a strategy in preparation further to an agreement under section 15A(1); “joint supplementary plan” must be construed in accordance with section 15IC; “local nature recovery strategy” means a local nature recovery strategy under section 104 of the Environment Act 2021; “local plan” must be construed in accordance with section 15C; “local plan timetable” must be construed in accordance with section 15B; “local planning authority” must be construed in accordance with section 15LF; “minerals and waste development” means development which is a county matter within the meaning of paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the principal Act (ignoring sub-paragraph (1)(i) of that paragraph); “minerals and waste plan” must be construed in accordance with section 15CB; “minerals and waste plan timetable” must be construed in accordance with section 15BB; “minerals and waste planning authority” must be construed in accordance with section 15LG; “neighbourhood priorities statement” must be construed in accordance with section 15K; “relevant area” must be construed in accordance with section 15LG; “relevant plan-making authority” must be construed in accordance with subsection (2); “spatial development strategy” means (except in the context of more specific expressions)— the spatial development strategy for London, a spatial development strategy adopted by a combined authority established under section 103 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009, or a joint spatial development strategy; “spatial development strategy for London” means the strategy adopted by the Mayor of London under Part 8 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999; “supplementary plan” must be construed in accordance with section 15CC.