The High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) (Qualifying Authorities) Order 2017

Made: 23rd February 2017

Coming into force: 24th February 2017

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 13(1) of Schedule 17 to the High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Act 2017[^f00001] makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) (Qualifying Authorities) Order 2017 and comes into force on 24th February 2017.

Undertakings given by local authorities

2

The planning authorities specified in the Schedule had, on or before the day on which the Bill for the High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Act 2017 was reported from Select Committee in the House of Lords, given the Secretary of State undertakings with respect to the handling of planning matters arising under Schedule 17 to that Act which he considered satisfactory and have not subsequently been released from their undertakings.

SCHEDULE — Qualifying Authorities

• Aylesbury Vale District Council

• Birmingham City Council

• Birmingham City Council

• Buckinghamshire County Council

• Cherwell District Council

• Chiltern District Council

• Hertfordshire County Council

• Lichfield District Council

• London Borough of Brent

• London Borough of Camden

• London Borough of Ealing

• London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham

• London Borough of Hillingdon

• Manchester City Council

• Northamptonshire County Council

• North Warwickshire Borough Council

• Old Oak & Park Royal Development Corporation

• Oxfordshire County Council

• Slough Borough Council

• Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council

• South Bucks District Council

• South Northamptonshire Council

• Staffordshire County Council

• Stratford on Avon District Council

• Three Rivers District Council

• Warwickshire County Council

• Warwick District Council

• Westminster City Council

• Wycombe District Council

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Andrew Jones — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Transport — 23rd February 2017

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order specifies the planning authorities which are qualifying authorities for the purposes of Schedule 17 to the High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Act 2017. Schedule 17 establishes a planning regime that seeks to give the qualifying authorities an appropriate degree of control over the detailed planning aspects of the Phase One stage of the HS2 programme.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2017 c. 7.