{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016/section-143",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016/section-143.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/22",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Planning Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016",
  "path": "section/143",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "143",
  "heading": "Power to direct amendment of local development scheme",
  "text": "(1) In section 15 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (local development scheme), before subsection (4) insert—\n“(3A) If a local planning authority have not prepared a local development scheme, the Secretary of State or the Mayor of London may—\n(a) prepare a local development scheme for the authority, and\n(b) direct the authority to bring that scheme into effect.”\n(2) In subsections (4) and (8AA) of that section, for “effective coverage” substitute “ full and effective coverage (both geographically and with regard to subject matter) ”.\n(3) In subsections (4A)(a), (5), (6), (6A) and (6B)(a) of that section, after “under subsection” insert “ (3A) or ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 143 in force at 13.7.2016 by S.I. 2016/733, reg. 3(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/22/section/143",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:11.976723+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}