{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-play-sufficiency-assessment-scotland-regulations-2023/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2023/97",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Play Sufficiency Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-play-sufficiency-assessment-scotland-regulations-2023",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make provision in connection with the preparation of a play sufficiency assessment under section 16D of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 (“the Act”). Planning authorities must carry out a play sufficiency assessment as part of the evidence report which must be prepared under section 16B of the Act before the preparation of a local development plan.\nRegulation 3 sets out the form and content of a play sufficiency assessment. Regulation 4 provides who the planning authority must consult in the preparation of the play sufficiency assessment. Regulation 5 specifies that the play sufficiency assessment must be published electronically.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2023/97/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:45:59.602935+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."
}