Statutory Instruments
2004 No. 3370
URBAN DEVELOPMENT, ENGLAND
The West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 2004
Approved by both Houses of Parliament
Made
4th May 2004
Laid before Parliament
13th May 2004
Coming into force
15th December 2004
The First Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 134(1) and 135 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 26 to, the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980( 1 ), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 2004, and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.
Designation of urban development area
2. —(1) The area comprising the three areas shown on the maps bounded externally by a black line and edged internally with a stippled band is hereby designated as an urban development area.
(2) In paragraph (1), “the maps” means the set of maps numbered 1 to 3 entitled “Maps referred to in the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 2004”, of which prints, signed by a Director in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and dated 4th May 2004, are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the First Secretary of State and the offices of Government Office for the East Midlands, Northamptonshire County Council, South Northamptonshire Council, Daventry District Council and Northampton Borough Council.
Establishment of the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation
3. —(1) For the purposes of regenerating the area designated by article 2(1) there is hereby established an urban development corporation named “West Northamptonshire Development Corporation”.
(2) The corporation established by paragraph (1) shall consist of eleven members in addition to the chairman and deputy chairman.
Signed by authority of the First Secretary of State
Jeff Rooker
Minister of State,
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
4th May 2004
1980 c. 65 . Section 134 was amended by the Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c. 63) , sections 47, 49(2) and Part III of Schedule 12; and by the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c. 28) , section 179(1), (2) and (3). Section 135 was amended by the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, section 179(4). The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 134, 135 and paragraph 1 of Schedule 26 were, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672 ), article 2; see the entry in Schedule 1 for the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980.