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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-new-towns-act-1981-local-authority-oversight-regulations-2018/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2018/9780111169995",
  "legislation_title": "The New Towns Act 1981 (Local Authority Oversight) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-new-towns-act-1981-local-authority-oversight-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Section 7 (planning control) has effect as if for subsection (2) there were substituted—\n“(2) Where the oversight authority is the local planning authority (or is authorised to act on behalf of the local planning authority) for the whole or part of the area of the new town, the oversight authority may, in addition to approving proposals under subsection (1)—\n(a) adopt them as a local development document (within the meaning of section 17 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004);\n(b) make a local development order under section 61A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, which grants planning permission for any development of land in accordance with proposals approved under subsection (1), and such permission shall be subject to such conditions, if any (including conditions requiring details of any proposed development to be submitted to the authority), as may be specified in the order.\n(2A) Subsection (2) is without prejudice to the generality of—\n(a) Part 2 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004; and\n(b) the powers conferred by section 61A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c.64. Section 7 was amended by Schedule 2 to the Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c.11)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2004 c.5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1990 c.8. Section 61A was inserted by Section 40(1) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c.5)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}