A strategic planning authority may withdraw its draft spatial development strategy at any time before arrangements are made for its examination.
Subsection (3) applies at any time after arrangements have been made for examination of a draft spatial development strategy (but before it is adopted).
The strategic planning authority that prepared the draft strategy may withdraw it only if—
the Secretary of State so directs, or
the examiner recommends that it is withdrawn, and the Secretary of State has not directed that it is not to be withdrawn.
The steps taken by a strategic planning authority to withdraw a draft strategy must include—
deleting the strategy from the website on which it was published;
removing copies of the strategy that were made available for inspection;
notifying the following that the strategy has been withdrawn—
each person to whom a notification under section 12H(1)(b) was required to be given;
any person, not within sub-paragraph (i), who made representations in accordance with regulations under section 12H(7).