{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1990/schedule-2/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1990/schedule-2/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/8",
  "legislation_title": "Town and Country Planning Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1990",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Sub-paragraph (2) applies where—\n(a) a local plan is in force in the area of a local planning authority;\n(b) a unitary development plan is being prepared;\n(c) the local planning authority who are preparing that plan have published in the prescribed manner a statement in the prescribed form identifying a policy included in the plan as an existing policy; and\n(d) a local inquiry or other hearing is held for the purpose of considering any objection to the plan.\n(2) Where this sub-paragraph applies, the person holding the inquiry or other hearing need not allow an objector to appear if he is satisfied that—\n(a) the objection is to a policy identified in the statement published under sub-paragraph (1)(c);\n(b) the policy so identified is an existing policy; and\n(c) there has been no significant change in circumstances affecting the existing policy since it first formed part of the plan mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a).\n(3) In this paragraph “ existing policy ” means a policy or proposal the substance of which (however expressed) was contained in a local plan in force as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. II para. 17 substituted (25.11.1991 for certain purposes and otherwise 10.2.1992) by Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34, SIF 123:1), s. 27, Sch. 4 Pt. II para. 36(2) (with s. 84(5)); S.I. 1991/2728, art.2; S.I. 1991/2905, art. 4, Sch.3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/8/schedule/2/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:35:00.269643+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."
}