I move amendment No. 32:
In page 22, subsection (1), lines 38 to 43, to delete paragraph (b) and substitute the following:
"(b) The Authority may at any time prepare a planning scheme amending a planning scheme under this section, including a planning scheme continued in force by virtue of section 9(1), in respect of——
(i) the entire area to which the planning scheme applies, or any part thereof, or
(ii) the full requirements as to content specified in subsection (2), or any part thereof.”.
Under the Urban Renewal Act, 1986, there is no power to make a planning scheme amending an earlier planning scheme in respect of part of an area to which the earlier scheme related. This means that it became necessary to make a planning scheme in relation to a whole area in order to make changes which affect a part and, in addition to including the revised provisions in relation to a part of the area concerned, all the other provisions of the earlier scheme in relation to the remainder of the areas would have to be restated unaltered even though the part of the area might have been fully developed. That is not reasonable and it resulted in much unnecessary duplication of work to restate areas and maps which were out of consideration and developed. It was for that reason that provision was included in section 25(1)(b) of the Bill to allow amending planning schemes to be made in respect of any part of an area covered by the original planning scheme.
This amendment will also cover situations where the authority only wishes to make minor adjustments of a planning scheme in so far as it will allow an amending planning scheme to be made, not just for particular parts of an area but also for particular issues.
