{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/22",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Planning Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Compliance directions",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may make a compliance direction if satisfied that—\n(a) a local planning authority has failed to carry out its functions in relation to starter homes or has failed to carry them out adequately, and\n(b) a policy contained in a local development document for the authority is incompatible with those functions.\n(2) A “compliance direction” is a direction that no regard is to be had to the policy for the purposes of any determination to be made under the planning Acts.\n(3) A compliance direction remains in force until revoked by a further direction given by the Secretary of State.\n(4) A direction under this section must include the Secretary of State's reasons for making it.\n(5) The Secretary of State must publish any direction under this section and give a copy to the local planning authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2023/55",
      "affecting_title": "Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/22/section/7",
    "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."
}