The Leeds Development Corporation (Area and Consitution) Order 1988

Made: 10th May 1988

Laid before Parliament: 17th May 1988

Coming into force: 30th June 1988

The Secretary of State for the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 134 and 135 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 26 to, the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980[^f00001], 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 Leeds Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1988 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

Interpretation

2

In this Order, “the map” means the map entitled “Map referred to in the Leeds Development Corporation (Area and Consitution) Order 1988”, of which prints signed by an Under Secretary in the Department of the Environment, are deposited and available for inspection at the Offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment and the offices of the council of the city of Leeds

Designation of urban development area

3

The area comprising the two areas shown on the map bounded externally by a blank line edged internally with a stippled band is hereby designated as an urban development area.

Establishment of the Leeds Development Corporation

4

For the purposes of regenerating the designated area there is hereby established an urban development corporation named “The Leeds Development Corporation” with nine members in addition to the chairman and deputy chairman.

Signed

Nicholas Ridley — Secretary of State for the Environment — 10th May 1988

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the order)

This Order designates two areas totalling about 540 hectares in the city of Leeds as an urban development area and establishes an urban development corporation to regenerate the area. The two areas are shown hatched black on the map forming part of this note.

The development corporation is to be called the Leeds Development Corporation, and have 9 members beside the chairman and deputy chairman.

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 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.