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Housing minister blocks Surrey council from withdrawing local plan
Rachel Maclean has used powers to direct Spelthorne “not to take any step to withdraw the plan from examination”
Housing minister Rachel Maclean has written to a Surrey council ordering it not to withdraw its emerging local plan from examination.
It has been 14 years since Spelthorne Borough Council last adopted a local plan. It paused the preparation of a new plan in June after the Conservatives lost control of the council.
Maclean’s letter exercised the Levelling Up Secretary of State’s intervention powers under section 27 of the 2004 Planning and Compulsory Act to order Spelthorne not to withdraw its plan.
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