{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1990/schedule-7/paragraph-4",
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  "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/7/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A simplified planning zone direction is—\n(a) if the request was for the making of a scheme, a direction to make a scheme which the Secretary of State considers appropriate; and\n(b) if the request was for the alteration of a scheme, a direction to alter it in such manner as he considers appropriate and, in either case, requires the local planning authority to take all the steps required by this Schedule for the adoption of proposals for the making or, as the case may be, alteration of a scheme.\n(2) A direction under sub-paragraph (1)(a) or (b) may extend—\n(a) to the land specified in the request to the authority,\n(b) to any part of the land so specified, or\n(c) to land which includes the whole or part of the land so specified;\nand accordingly may direct that land shall be added to or excluded from an existing simplified planning zone.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 7 para. 4(1) inserted (25.11.1991 for certain purposes and otherwise 9.11.1992) by Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34, SIF 123:1), s. 28, Sch. 5 Pt. II para.5; S.I. 1991/2728, art.2; S.I. 1992/2413, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    }
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    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2004/5",
      "affecting_title": "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/7",
      "affecting_title": "Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/7",
      "affecting_title": "Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/7",
      "affecting_title": "Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "amendment to earlier affecting provision 2004 c. 5 s. 45(9)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2011/20",
      "affecting_title": "Localism Act 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2004/5",
      "affecting_title": "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2004/5",
      "affecting_title": "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for Sch. 7 para. 12(1)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2004/5",
      "affecting_title": "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/8/schedule/7/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}