{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-simplified-planning-zones-regulations-1987/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-simplified-planning-zones-regulations-1987/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1750",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Simplified Planning Zones) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-simplified-planning-zones-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Local inquiries and other hearings",
  "text": "(1) A local planning authority intending to hold a local inquiry to consider objections to proposals to make or alter a simplified planning zone scheme or to proposed modifications to such proposals shall at least six weeks before the inquiry is due to open—\n(a) give notice by local advertisement of the time and place at which the inquiry is to open and of the purpose of the inquiry; and\n(b) notify every person who has duly made objection (other than an objector who has indicated in writing that he does not wish to appear at any inquiry or hearing), and any other person whom they consider should be given notice, of the matters mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) above.\n(2) A local planning authority intending to hold a hearing to consider such objections as are mentioned in paragraph (1) shall at least six weeks before the date of the hearing notify every person who has made objection as aforesaid and every other person whom they consider should be given notice of the hearing of the time and place at which the hearing is to be held and of the purpose of the hearing.\n(3) A local inquiry held for the purpose mentioned in paragraph (1) shall be held in public.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1750/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:19:39.021188+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."
}