SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2 Relaxation of controls over local and other authorities

The Town and Contry Planning (Scotland) Act 1959 (c. 70)

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After subsection (2) of section 27 (requirement of consent of Secretary of State etc. to certain disposals of land by local and other authorities) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

2A

Before disposing of any land which consists, or forms part, of a common or of an open space (not being land which is held for use as allotments) an authority to whom this Part of this Act applies—

a

shall, for at least two consecutive weeks in a newspaper circulating in their area, publish a notice of the proposed disposal; and

b

shall consider any objections to that disposal which may be made to them.