{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-permission-in-principle-order-2017/article-5Q",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/402",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Permission in Principle) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-permission-in-principle-order-2017",
  "path": "article/5Q",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5Q",
  "heading": "Development departing from the development plan",
  "text": "A local planning authority may in such cases and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by directions given by the Secretary of State under this Order, grant permission in principle for development which does not accord with the provisions of the development plan in force in the area in which the land to which the application relates is situated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 2A inserted (1.6.2018) by The Town and Country Planning (Permission in Principle) (Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/1309), arts. 1, 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/402/article/5Q",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:12:43.491845+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."
}