{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1997/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1997/section-25.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/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Status of development plan",
  "text": "(1) Where, in making any determination under the planning Acts, regard is to be had to the development plan, the determination is, unless material considerations indicate otherwise , to be made in accordance with that plan.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "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": "Words in s. 25(1) substituted (12.2.2023) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 13(3)(a), 63(2); S.S.I. 2023/10, reg. 3(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 25(2)(3) repealed (12.2.2023) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 13(3)(b), 63(2); S.S.I. 2023/10, reg. 3(2)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/8/section/25",
    "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."
}