The High Speed Rail (West Midlands – Crewe) (Qualifying Authorities) Regulations 2021

Made: 11th February 2021

Laid before Parliament: 5th April 2022

Coming into force: 12th February 2021

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 13(1) of Schedule 17 to the High Speed Rail (West Midlands – Crewe) Act 2021[^f00001].

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the High Speed Rail (West Midlands – Crewe) (Qualifying Authorities) Regulations 2021 and come into force on 12th February 2021.

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 (West Midlands – Crewe) Act 2021 was reported from Select Committee in the House of Lords, given the Secretary of State undertakings with respect to the handling of the planning matters arising under Schedule 17 to that Act which the Secretary of State considered satisfactory and have not subsequently been released from their undertakings.

SCHEDULE — Qualifying Authorities

• Cheshire East Council

• East Staffordshire Borough Council

• Lichfield District Council

• Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council

• Shropshire Council

• Stafford Borough Council

• Staffordshire County Council

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Andrew Stephenson — Minister of State — Department for Transport — 11th February 2021

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations specify the planning authorities which are qualifying authorities for the purposes of Schedule 17 to the High Speed Rail (West Midlands – Crewe) Act 2021. 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 2a stage of the HS2 programme.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2021 c. 2.