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Part II.—Town Planning.
A town planning scheme may be made as respects any land which
is in course of development or appears likely to be used for building
purposes, with the general object of securing proper sanitary conditions,
amenity, and convenience in connection with the laying out and use of
the land, and of any neighbouring lands.
The Local Government Board may authorise a local authority
to prepare a town planning scheme; or may authorise a local authority
to adopt, with or without any modifications, any such scheme proposed
by all or any of the owners of any land with respect to which the local
authority might themselves have been authorised to prepare a scheme.
Where it is made to appear to the Local Government Board that a
piece of land already built upon, or a piece of land not likely to be used
for building purposes, is so situated with respect to any land likely to
be used for building purposes that it ought to be included in any town
planning scheme made with respect to the last-mentioned land, the
Board may authorise the preparation or adoption of a scheme including
such piece of land as aforesaid, and providing for the demolition or
alteration of any buildings thereon so far as may be necessary for
carrying the scheme into effect.
A town planning scheme may be varied or revoked by a subsequent
scheme prepared or adopted and approved.
The Local Government Board may prescribe a set of general of
special provisions for preparing and for carrying out the general objects
of town planning schemes. Provided that, before a town planning
scheme is approved by the Local Government Board, notice of their
intention to do so shall be published in the London or Edinburgh
Gazette, as the case may be; and, if within twenty-one days from the
date of such publication any person or authority interested objects in
the prescribed manner, the draft of the order shall be laid before each
House of Parliament for a period of not less than thirty days during
the session of Parliament, and, if either of those Houses before the