{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1962/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1962/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/38",
  "legislation_title": "Town and Country Planning Act 1962",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1962",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Incorporation in development plans of orders and schemes relating to highways and new towns",
  "text": "(1) Where the Minister of Transport—\n(a) makes an order under section seven of the Highways Act, 1959, directing that a highway proposed to be constructed by him shall become a trunk road, or\n(b) makes or confirms an order or scheme under section nine, section eleven or section thirteen of that Act,\nany development plan approved or made under this Act which relates to land on which a highway is to be constructed or altered in accordance with that order or scheme shall have effect as if the provisions of that order or scheme were included in the plan.\n(2) Where an order is made by the Minister under section one of the New Towns Act, 1946, designating an area as the site of a new town under that Act, any development plan approved or made under this Act which relates to land in that area shall have effect as if the provisions of that order were included in the plan.\n(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting the inclusion in a development plan, as approved or made by the Minister or as for the time being amended, of provisions—\n(a) defining the line of a highway proposed to be constructed or altered in accordance with any such order or scheme as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, or\n(b) defining an area designated as the site of a new town by any such order as is mentioned in subsection (2) of this section, or\n(c) defining land as likely to be made the subject of any such order or scheme as is mentioned in either of those subsections.\n(4) Provision may be made by regulations under this Act for enabling any proceedings preliminary to the making of any such order as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of this section, or in subsection (2) thereof, to be taken concurrently with proceedings required under this Act to be taken in connection with the approval or making of a development plan relating to land to which any such order applies, or in connection with any amendment of a development plan rendered necessary or desirable in consequence of any such order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/38/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:02:52.539255+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."
}