Part of Orders of the Day — Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 5 August 1947.
Lords Amendment: In page 92, line 6, at the end, insert:
or,
(c) that the land together with any land contiguous or adjacent to such land was on the seventh day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, or would have been but for circumstances arising out of the emergency which was the occasion of the passing of the Courts (Emergency Powers) Act, 1939, in the course of development as a residential commercial or industrial estate and that the proposed development is or would be immediately practicable but for such circumstances as aforesaid and that there is a demand for such development.
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