To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what adopted structure plans are in force in each (a) region and (b) county; and what the date is (i) of their adoption and (ii) on which they cease to be part of the development plan under current legislation. (152640)

Under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, all structure plans lapsed on the 27 September 2007, unless they were adopted in September 2004, in which case they will lapse three years from their date of adoption.

Regional planning bodies can make an application to save individual structure plan policies, to be saved after the lapse of the structure plan.

The Secretary of State decided which individual structure plan policies will be saved by the 27 September 2007

The current status of adopted structure plans by region are detailed as follows:

North East

County Durham Structure Plan adopted 1999, Northumberland Joint Structure Plan adopted in 1995 and Tees Valley Structure Plan adopted 2004 will all expire on 27 September 2007

Yorkshire and Humber

Humberside Structure Plan (adopted in 1987, alteration 1993). Superseded by Hull and East Riding Joint Structure Plan (as follows) for those two districts but will remain part of the statutory development plan for North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire until 27 September 2007.

North Yorkshire and York Joint Structure Plan adopted 1995—remains part of the development plan until 27 September 2007.

Hull and East Riding Joint Structure Plan adopted June 2005 and will remain part of the statutory development plan until June 2008.

North West

Lakes District/Cumbria Structure Plan adopted April 2005 will expire April 2008.

Cheshire Structure Plan adopted December 2005 will expire December 2008.

Joint Lancashire Structure Plan adopted in May 2005 will expire May 2008.

South West

Joint Replacement Structure Plan (Bath and North East Somerset Council, Bristol City Council, North Somerset Council, South Gloucestershire Council) Structure Plan adopted in 2002 and due to expire on 27 September 2007.

Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole Structure Plan adopted in July 2000 and due to expire on 27 September 2007.

Cornwall Structure Plan adopted on September 2004, due to expire on 27 September 2007.

Devon Structure Plan (Devon City Council, Plymouth City Council, Torbay Council and Dartmoor National Park) adopted on October 2004 and due to expire in October 2007

Gloucestershire Structure Plan adopted on November 1999 and due to expire on 27 September 2007.

Somerset and Exmoor National Park Structure Plan adopted in April 2000 and due to end on 27 September 2007.

Wiltshire Structure Plan 2001-11 adopted in 2001 and due to end on 27 September 2007.

Wiltshire and Swindon Structure Plan adopted in April 2006 and due to expire in April 2009.

South East

East Sussex/Brighton and Hove Structure Plan adopted 1999, Buckinghamshire Structure Plan and the Hampshire Structure Plan adopted 2000 will all expire on the 27 September 2007.

Kent/Medway Structure Plan adopted in July 2006 will expire July 2009.

Surrey Structure Plan adopted in December 2004 will expire December 2007.

Oxfordshire Structure Plan adopted in October 2005 will expire October 2008.

Berkshire Structure Plan adopted July 2005 will expire July 2008.

West Sussex Structure Plan adopted October 2004 will expire October 2007.

East Midlands

Northamptonshire Structure Plan adopted in March 2001, Derby and Derbyshire Joint Structure Plan adopted January 2001 and the Peak District National Park Structure Plan adopted in April 1994 will all expire on the 27 September 2007.

Nottinghamshire Joint Structure Plan adopted in February 2006 will expire February 2009.

Lincolnshire Structure Plan adopted in September 2006 will expire September 2009.

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Structure Plan adopted March 2005 will expire March 2008.

West Midlands

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Structure Plan adopted May 2001, Warwickshire Structure Plan adopted August 2001, Worcestershire Structure Plan adopted June 2001 and Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Structure Plan adopted November 2002 will all expire on the 27 September 2007.

East of England

Bedfordshire Structure Plan adopted March 1997, Cambridgeshire Structure Plan adopted December 1995, Cambridgeshire/Peterborough Structure Plan adopted October 2003, Essex/Southend Structure Plan adopted April 2001, Hertfordshire Structure Plan adopted April 1998, Norfolk Structure Plan adopted October 1999 and Suffolk Structure Plan adopted June 2001 will all expire on the 27 September 2007.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when she expects to reach a decision on the savings of policies from those structure plans in each (a) region and (b) county which cease to have effect from September under current legislation; and if she will publish on the appropriate Government Regional Office website a list of policies to be saved in each case. (152747)

The Secretary of State made a direction on which policies in existing adopted structure plans will be extended on 27 September 2007.

These decisions were made public.