{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1997/section-3ZA",
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  "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/3ZA",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3ZA",
  "heading": "Purpose of planning",
  "text": "(1) The purpose of planning is to manage the development and use of land in the long term public interest.\n(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), anything which—\n(a) contributes to sustainable development, or\n(b) achieves the national outcomes (within the meaning of Part 1 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015),\nis to be considered as being in the long term public interest.\n(3) This section applies only to the Scottish Ministers' and planning authorities' exercise of functions under Parts 1A and 2.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 1ZA inserted (8.11.2019) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 1(2), 63(2); S.S.I. 2019/314, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/8/section/3ZA",
    "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."
}