The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 No. 596

SCHEDULE 2 E+W Permitted development rights

PART 17 E+W Mining and mineral exploration

[F1 Class JA – temporary use of land etc in respect of petroleum exploration E+W

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2 Pt. 17 Class JA and cross-heading inserted (6.4.2016) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/332), arts. 1, 14(b)

Interpretation of Class JA E+W

JA.3.— (1) For the purposes of Class JA, “protected groundwater source area” means any land at a depth of less than 1,200 metres beneath a relevant surface area.

(2) In paragraph (1), “relevant surface area” means any land at the surface that is—

(a) within 50 metres of a point at the surface at which water is abstracted from underground strata and which is used to supply water for domestic or food production purposes, or

(b) within or above a zone defined by a 50-day travel time for groundwater to reach a groundwater abstraction point that is used to supply water for domestic or food production purposes.]