{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-new-towns-special-development-order-1977/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1977/665",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (New Towns) Special Development Order 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-new-towns-special-development-order-1977",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order under section 24 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 revokes and re-enacts with amendments the Town and Country Planning (New Towns Special Development) Order 1963 (as amended), made under the corresponding section of the Town and Country Planning Act 1962 (c. 38).\nUnder section 6(1) of the New Towns Act 1965 the Secretary of State, after consultation with the appropriate local planning authority and with any other local authority who appear to him to be concerned, may approve proposals submitted to him by a development corporation for the development of land within an area designated as the site of a new town. Section 6(2) of that Act provides that a special development order (that is, a special development order made under section 24 of the Act of 1971) may grant permission for any development of land in accordance with proposals so approved.\nThis Order, which applies to any area for the time being designated as the site of a new town (other than any such area for which the Development Board for Rural Wales is responsible), grants permission for the carrying out of such development either by the development corporation or (where the development corporation have authorised the development in the manner set out in the order) by any other person in possession of land formerly held by a development corporation (article 3). The permission granted by the order is subject to limitations and conditions (articles 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8) and may be withdrawn in any particular case by direction of the Secretary of State (article 9).\nThe principal amendments made by this order to the previous order, as amended, are as follows:—\n(a) time limits have been imposed on the carrying out of development by a development corporation or on the commencement of development authorised by the development corporation, and permission for the latter development is granted by the order only where a copy of the authorisation has been sent to the district planning authority (article 3(2));\n(b) additions have been made to the requirements for consultation before a development corporation may carry out development or authorise development, as the case may be (article 8);\n(c) drafting amendments have been made to the provisions which re-enact those of article 4 of the previous order, which set out exceptions from the permissions granted by article 3 (articles 4, 5, 6, and 7).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/665/note",
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  "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."
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