{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-black-country-urban-development-area-special-development-order-1987/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-black-country-urban-development-area-special-development-order-1987/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1343",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Black Country Urban Development Area) Special Development Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-black-country-urban-development-area-special-development-order-1987",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the 1971 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1971;\n“the 1980 Act” means the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980;\n“the development area” means the area designated as an urban development area by the Black Country Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1987;\n“the development corporation” means the Black Country Development Corporation;\n“the General Development Order” means the Town and Country Planning General Development Order 1977; and expressions used in this Order shall have the meaning which they bear in the General Development Order;\n“new street” has the same meaning as in Part X of the Highways Act 1980; and\n“unapproved means of access” means a means of access which is not shown in a proposal approved by the Secretary of State under section 148(1) of the 1980 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/922."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1977/289, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1980 c. 66."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1343/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:22:43.077096+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."
}