{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1997/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1997/section-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/8",
  "legislation_title": "Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1997",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Delivery programmes",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) A planning authority who prepare a local development plan are to prepare a delivery programme for the plan.\n(3) In preparing a delivery programme an authority are to seek the views of, and have regard to any views expressed by—\n(a) the key agencies, and\n(b) such persons as may be prescribed.\n(4) When an authority publish a proposed—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) local development plan under section 18(1)(a),\nthey are to publish a proposeddelivery programme for the plan.\n(4A) It is the duty of the head of the planning authority's paid service (designated under section 4 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989) to prepare the proposed delivery programme.\n(4B) The planning authority must approve the proposed delivery programme before it is published.\n(4C) Section 56 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (arrangements for discharge of functions by local authorities) does not apply to the function of approving a proposed delivery programme.\n(5) It is the duty of a key agency to co-operate with an authority in the preparation of the authority's delivery programme or proposed delivery programme.\n(6) A delivery programme is a document setting out how an authority propose to implement the plan to which it relates.\n(7) Regulations may make provision as to—\n(a) the form and content of, and\n(b) the procedures for preparing and adopting,\na delivery programme.\n(8) The authority are to adopt and publish the delivery programme within 3 months after the date on which the plan to which it relates is constituted.\n(9) The authority must keep the delivery programme under review and must update and re-publish it—\n(a) whenever required to do so by the Scottish Ministers, and\n(b) (subject to paragraph (a)) whenever they think it appropriate to do so but in any event within 2 years after last publishing (or re-publishing) it.\n(10) When they publish, or re-publish, a delivery programme, the authority are to—\n(a) send two copies of it to the Scottish Ministers, and\n(b) place a copy of it in each public library—\n(i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(ii) ... in the part of the authority's district to which the local development plan in question relates,\nand such publication, or re-publication, is to include by electronic means (as for example by means of the internet).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 substituted (19.5.2008 for specified purposes, 25.6.2008 for specified purposes, 28.2.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 17), ss. 2, 59(2) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.S.I. 2008/165, arts. 1, 2 and S.S.I. 2008/427, arts. 1(1), 2-5); S.S.I. 2008/164, art. 2(1)(2), sch.; S.S.I. 2009/70, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 21(1) repealed (12.2.2023) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), s. 63(2), sch. 2 para. 1(4)(a); S.S.I. 2023/10, reg. 3(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 21(2) substituted (8.11.2019 for specified purposes, 19.5.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 11(2)(a), 63(2); S.S.I. 2019/314, reg. 2; S.S.I. 2023/100, reg. 2(2)(c) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 21(3) substituted (8.11.2019 for specified purposes, 19.5.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 11(2)(b), 63(2); S.S.I. 2019/314, reg. 2; S.S.I. 2023/100, reg. 2(2)(c) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 21(3) substituted (12.2.2023) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), s. 63(2), sch. 2 para. 1(4)(b); S.S.I. 2023/10, reg. 3(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 21(4)(a) and word repealed (12.2.2023) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), s. 63(2), sch. 2 para. 1(4)(c); S.S.I. 2023/10, reg. 3(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in s. 21(4) substituted (8.11.2019 for specified purposes, 19.5.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 11(2)(c), 63(2); S.S.I. 2019/314, reg. 2; S.S.I. 2023/100, reg. 2(2)(c) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 21(4A)-(4C) inserted (8.11.2019 for specified purposes, 19.5.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 11(2)(d), 63(2); S.S.I. 2019/314, reg. 2; S.S.I. 2023/100, reg. 2(2)(c) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 21(5) substituted (12.2.2023) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), s. 63(2), sch. 2 para. 1(4)(d); S.S.I. 2023/10, reg. 3(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in s. 21(5) substituted (8.11.2019 for specified purposes, 19.5.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 11(2)(e), 63(2); S.S.I. 2019/314, reg. 2; S.S.I. 2023/100, reg. 2(2)(c) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 21(6) substituted (8.11.2019 for specified purposes, 19.5.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 11(2)(f), 63(2); S.S.I. 2019/314, reg. 2; S.S.I. 2023/100, reg. 2(2)(c) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in s. 21(6) substituted (12.2.2023) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), s. 63(2), sch. 2 para. 1(4)(e); S.S.I. 2023/10, reg. 3(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in s. 21(7) substituted (8.11.2019 for specified purposes, 19.5.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 11(2)(g), 63(2); S.S.I. 2019/314, reg. 2; S.S.I. 2023/100, reg. 2(2)(c) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Word in s. 21(8) substituted (8.11.2019 for specified purposes, 19.5.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 11(2)(h), 63(2); S.S.I. 2019/314, reg. 2; S.S.I. 2023/100, reg. 2(2)(c) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Word in s. 21(9) substituted (8.11.2019 for specified purposes, 19.5.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 11(2)(i), 63(2); S.S.I. 2019/314, reg. 2; S.S.I. 2023/100, reg. 2(2)(c) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Words in s. 21(10) substituted (8.11.2019 for specified purposes, 19.5.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 11(2)(j), 63(2); S.S.I. 2019/314, reg. 2; S.S.I. 2023/100, reg. 2(2)(c) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "S. 21(10)(b)(i) and word repealed (12.2.2023) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), s. 63(2), sch. 2 para. 1(4)(f); S.S.I. 2023/10, reg. 3(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "Words in s. 21(10)(b)(ii) repealed (12.2.2023) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), s. 63(2), sch. 2 para. 1(4)(g); S.S.I. 2023/10, reg. 3(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F19",
      "text": "S. 21 heading substituted (8.11.2019 for specified purposes, 19.5.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 11(3), 63(2); S.S.I. 2019/314, reg. 2; S.S.I. 2023/100, reg. 2(2)(c) (with reg. 5)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:28:15.132338+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."
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