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Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997

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Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997, Section 15B is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 04 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations. Help about Changes to Legislation

[F1[F215BReview of local place plansS

(1)The Scottish Ministers must, as soon as practicable after the end of the 7 year period—

(a)carry out a review of local place plans,

(b)set out the conclusions of the review in a report,

(c)publish the report, and

(d)lay it before the Scottish Parliament.

(2)The report must, in particular, set out—

(a)the number of local place plans that have been submitted and the name of the community body that submitted the local place plan,

(b)the number of local place plans registered,

(c)a summary of the participation of people who engaged in preparing and submitting local place plans, either through a community body or through consultation,

(d)the support given to community bodies to prepare and submit a local place plan,

(e)an assessment of how the registered local place plans have influenced planning authorities'—

(i)preparation of local development plans for their district,

(ii)determination of applications for planning permission,

(f)an assessment of—

(i)the impact and effectiveness of local place plans across Scotland,

(ii)whether further support to community bodies should be provided to prepare and submit local place plans.

(3)The Scottish Ministers may, by notice, require a planning authority to provide it with such information as is specified or described in the notice and which they require for the purpose of subsection (1).

(4)In subsection (1), “the 7 year period” means the period of 7 years beginning with the day on which the Bill for the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 receives Royal Assent.]]

Textual Amendments

F1Pt. 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.

F2S. 15B inserted (8.11.2019 for specified purposes, 22.1.2022 in so far as not already in force) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 14(3), 63(2); S.S.I. 2019/314, reg. 2; S.S.I. 2021/480, reg. 2(1)

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