{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compulsory-purchase-act-2004/schedule-a1/paragraph-7C",
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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/7C",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7C",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where a local plan is prepared or revised by an upper-tier county council under paragraph 7B.\n(1A) If the upper-tier county council are to prepare the local plan, the upper-tier county council must publish a document setting out—\n(a) their timetable for preparing the plan, and\n(b) if they intend to depart from anything specified in a local plan timetable in relation to the plan, details of how they intend to depart from it.\n(2) The upper-tier county council must hold an independent examination.\n(3) The upper-tier county council—\n(a) must publish the recommendations and reasons of the person appointed to hold the examination, and\n(b) may also give directions to the lower-tier planning authority in relation to publication of those recommendations and reasons.\n(4) The upper-tier county council may then—\n(a) where the upper-tier county council have prepared a local plan, approve the local plan, approve the local plan subject to specified modifications or direct the lower-tier planning authority to consider adopting the local plan by resolution of the authority, or\n(b) where the upper-tier county council are to revise a local plan, make the revision or make the revision subject to specified modifications.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. A1 inserted (1.10.2016) by Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22), s. 216(3), Sch. 11; S.I. 2016/733, reg. 4(1)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. A1 paras. 7A-7D inserted (16.1.2018) by Neighbourhood Planning Act 2017 (c. 20), s. 46(1), Sch. 2 para. 4; S.I. 2018/38, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. A1 para. 7C(1) substituted (25.3.2026) by Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), s. 255(3)(b), Sch. 8 para. 26(14)(a) (with s. 247); S.I. 2026/169, reg. 3(f)(xi) (with Sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. A1 para. 7C(1A) inserted (25.3.2026) by Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), s. 255(3)(b), Sch. 8 para. 26(14)(b) (with s. 247); S.I. 2026/169, reg. 3(f)(xi) (with Sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. A1 para. 7C(4) substituted (25.3.2026) by Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), s. 255(3)(b), Sch. 8 para. 26(14)(c) (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/7C",
    "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."
}