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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-etc-scotland-act-2006-development-planning-saving-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-order-2008/article-7",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2008/427",
  "legislation_title": "The Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006 (Development Planning) (Saving, Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-etc-scotland-act-2006-development-planning-saving-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-order-2008",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Preparation of local development plans where no strategic development plan approved",
  "text": "Where a planning authority prepare a local development plan or two or more planning authorities prepare a joint local development plan and–\n(a) the land to which the proposed local development plan relates is within a strategic development plan area; and\n(b) a strategic development plan has not been approved by the Scottish Ministers for that area,\nsection 16(6) of the Act (as it has effect on the relevant date) is to have effect as if the reference to the strategic development plan is a reference to the structure plan for the land to which the local development plan relates.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/427/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:04:01.597030+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."
}