{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compulsory-purchase-act-2004/schedule-a1/paragraph-7B",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/5",
  "legislation_title": "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compulsory-purchase-act-2004",
  "path": "schedule/a1/paragraph/7B",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7B",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies if the Secretary of State thinks that a lower tier planning authority are failing to do anything it is necessary or expedient for them to do in connection with the preparation, adoption or revision of a local plan.\n(2) If the local plan has not come into effect, the Secretary of State may invite the upper-tier county council to take over preparation of the local plan from the lower-tier planning authority, in which case the upper-tier county council may do so.\n(3) If the local plan has come into effect, the Secretary of State may invite the upper-tier county council to revise the local plan, in which case the upper-tier county council may do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. A1 para. 7B substituted (25.3.2026) by Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), s. 255(3)(b), Sch. 8 para. 26(13) (with s. 247); S.I. 2026/169, reg. 3(f)(xi) (with Sch. 1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/5/schedule/a1/paragraph/7B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:35:16.746001+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."
}