Statutory Instruments
2020 No. 859
Town And Country Planning, England
The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2020
Made
at 12.50 p.m. on 13th August 2020
Laid before Parliament
at 2.55 p.m. on 13th August 2020
Coming into force
immediately before 1st September 2020
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 55(2)(f), and 333(2A) and (7) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990( 1 ), makes the following Regulations.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 and come into force immediately before 1st September 2020.
Amendment of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020
2. —(1)The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020( 2 ) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 1(3), after the definition of “the GPDO”, insert—
“ “the CIL Regulations” means the Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations 2010 ( 3 ) , ” .
(3) In regulation 2, at the end, for “3 and 4” substitute “3, 4 and 4A”.
(4) After regulation 4 insert—
“ 4A. —(1) If prior to the commencement of the material period, a charging authority published a charging schedule under regulation 25 of the CIL Regulations that—
(a) pursuant to regulation 13 of those Regulations, set differential rates by reference to different intended uses of development, and
(b) for the purposes of setting such differential rates, referred to use classes which applied in relation to England and were specified in the Schedule to the Use Classes Order on 31st August 2020,
those references to use classes are to be read as if they were references to the descriptions of the uses which were specified for the purposes of those use classes in that Order on that date.
(2) In this regulation “charging authority” and “charging schedule” have the same meaning as in the CIL Regulations. ” .
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Luke Hall
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
At 12.50 p.m. on 13th August 2020
1990 c.8 . Section 333(2A) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 was inserted by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c.5) , section 118(1), and paragraphs 1 and 14 of Schedule 6 to that Act. There are other amendments to the 1990 Act not relevant to these Regulations.
S.I. 2010/948 . Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2012/2975 , 2014/385 , and 2019/1103 . In the CIL Regulations, “charging schedule” is defined in regulation 2(1) and “charging authority” means the collecting authority for CIL charged in its area in accordance with regulation 10(1).