Transfer of Planning powers

Find out details of the transfer of planning powers, effective from 1 December 2024 and the interim arrangements effective from 1 September 2024.

In February 2020, the Legacy Corporation’s Board agreed that LLDC’s town planning powers and functions would return to the four neighbouring boroughs of Newham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest, by the end of December 2024.

On 8 September 2022, the Mayor of London formally decided for the purposes of sections 204(2) and (3) of the Localism Act 2011 that from 1 December 2024, LLDC shall cease to exercise, as regards the whole of its Mayoral development area, the entirety of its town planning functions conferred on it by London Legacy Development Corporation (Planning Functions) Order 2012 (“2012 Order” SI 2012 No. 2167).

From that date the planning functions that were exercised by the LLDC as a result of the 2012 Order will return to the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The last day on which the LLDC will exercise its planning functions will be until midnight on 30 November 2024.

To prepare for the formal return of LPA powers on the 1 December 2024, it has been agreed with the four boroughs that the LLDC will delegate its planning decision-making powers to the boroughs, in advance of the formal return of LPA functions on the 1 December 2024, for a 3-month period from the 1 September 2024 through to the 30 November 2024. The Council agreed to the transfer of planning powers and the interim delegation on 18 July 2024. View a copy of the Interim Delegation Scheme.

From Friday 30 August 2024 the LLDC’s presence on the Planning Portal will be amended and the option to submit to the LLDC removed. Anyone submitting an application via the Portal will, from this date, not be required to do anything differently and can submit their application as normal, as the system will be reconfigured to route all planning application submissions through to the Waltham Forest, rather than to the LLDC as was previously the case.

Further information can be found on the London Legacy Development Corporations website.