{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compulsory-purchase-act-2004/section-12O",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compulsory-purchase-act-2004/section-12O.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/5",
  "legislation_title": "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compulsory-purchase-act-2004",
  "path": "section/12O",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12O",
  "heading": "Replacement",
  "text": "(1) This section applies in relation to an operative spatial development strategy.\n(2) A strategic planning authority may at any time prepare a new spatial development strategy as a replacement.\n(3) The Secretary of State may direct a strategic planning authority to replace its spatial development strategy.\n(4) The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision as to when, or the circumstances in which, a strategic planning authority must replace its spatial development strategy.\n(5) A strategic planning authority’s operative spatial development strategy is revoked upon a new spatial development strategy being adopted by the authority in accordance with this Part.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 1A inserted (18.12.2025 for the purposes of making regulations, otherwise prosp.) by Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (c. 34), ss. 58(1), 118(2)(g) (with s. 116)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/5/section/12O",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:27.353631+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."
}