PART 1
GENERAL
Citation, commencement and application
1. - (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 28th September 2004.
(2) These Regulations apply in relation to England only.
Interpretation
2. - (1) In these Regulations-
"the Act" means the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004;
"DPD" means development plan document;
"LDD" means local development document;
"SPD" means supplementary planning document;
"address" in relation to electronic communications means any number or address used for the purposes of such communications;
"adopted proposals map" means a document of the description referred to in regulation 6(6);
"by local advertisement" means by publication on at least one occasion in a local newspaper circulating in the whole of the area of the local planning authority;
"core strategy" means a document of the description referred to in regulation 6(3);
"disabled person" has the same meaning as in section 1(2) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995[3];
"electronic communication" has the same meaning as in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000[4];
"electronic communications apparatus" has the same meaning as in paragraph 1(1) of the electronic communications code[5];
"electronic communications code" has the same meaning as in section 106(1) of the Communications Act 2003[6];
"general consultation bodies" means the following bodies -
(a) voluntary bodies some or all of whose activities benefit any part of the authority's area,
(b) bodies which represent the interests of different racial, ethnic or national groups in the authority's area,
(c) bodies which represent the interests of different religious groups in the authority's area,
(d) bodies which represent the interests of disabled persons in the authority's area,
(e) bodies which represent the interests of persons carrying on business in the authority's area;