The Requirement to Assist with Certain Plan Making (Prescribed Public Bodies) (England) Regulations 2026

Section 39A of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5) (“the Act”), as inserted by section 100 of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), established a power for a plan-making authority to notify a prescribed public body in writing that the authority requires the body to assist the authority in relation to the preparation or revision of a relevant plan under section 39A(5) of the Act by the authority. Where this power is exercised, the prescribed public body must do everything that the plan-making authority reasonably requires of the body to assist the authority in relation to the preparation or revision of the relevant plan.