The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995

Permitted development E+W

3.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order and regulations 60 to 63 of the Conservation (Natural Habitats, & c.) Regulations 1994 M1 (general development orders), planning permission is hereby granted for the classes of development described as permitted development in Schedule 2.

(2) Any permission granted by paragraph (1) is subject to any relevant exception, limitation or condition specified in Schedule 2.

(3) References in the following provisions of this Order to permission granted by Schedule 2 or by any Part, Class or paragraph of that Schedule are references to the permission granted by this article in relation to development described in that Schedule or that provision of that Schedule.

(4) Nothing in this Order permits development contrary to any condition imposed by any planning permission granted or deemed to be granted under Part III of the Act otherwise than by this Order.

(5) The permission granted by Schedule 2 shall not apply if—

(a) in the case of permission granted in connection with an existing building, the building operations involved in the construction of that building are unlawful;

(b) in the case of permission granted in connection with an existing use, that use is unlawful.

(6) The permission granted by Schedule 2 shall not, except in relation to development permitted by Parts 9, 11, 13 or 30, authorise any development which requires or involves the formation, laying out or material widening of a means of access to an existing highway which is a trunk road or classified road, or creates an obstruction to the view of persons using any highway used by vehicular traffic, so as to be likely to cause danger to such persons.

(7) Any development falling within Part 11 of Schedule 2 authorised by an Act or order subject to the grant of any consent or approval shall not be treated for the purposes of this Order as authorised unless and until that consent or approval is obtained, except where the Act was passed or the order made after 1st July 1948 and it contains provision to the contrary.

(8) Schedule 2 does not grant permission for the laying or construction of a notifiable pipe-line, except in the case of the laying or construction of a notifiable pipe-line by a [F1 public gas transporter] in accordance with Class F of Part 17 of that Schedule.

(9) Except as provided in Part 31, Schedule 2 does not permit any development which requires or involves the demolition of a building, but in this paragraph “building" does not include part of a building.

[F2 (10) Subject to paragraph (12), Schedule 1 development or Schedule 2 development within the meaning of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 (“the EIA Regulations") is not permitted by this Order unless:

(a) the local planning authority has adopted a screening opinion under regulation 5 of those Regulations that the development is not EIA development;

(b) the Secretary of State has made a screening direction under regulation 4(7) or 6(4) of those Regulations that the development is not EIA development; or

(c) the Secretary of State has given a direction under regulation 4(4) of those Regulations that the development is exempted from the application of those Regulations.

(11) Where:

(a) the local planning authority has adopted a screening opinion pursuant to regulation 5 of the EIA Regulations that development is EIA development and the Secretary of State has in relation to that development neither made a screening direction to the contrary under regulation 4(7) or 6(4) of those Regulations nor directed under regulation 4(4) of those Regulations that the development is exempted from the application of those Regulations; or

(b) the Secretary of State has directed that development is EIA development,

that development shall be treated, for the purposes of paragraph (10), as development which is not permitted by this Order.]

(12) Paragraph (10) does not apply to—

F3 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b) development which consists of the carrying out by a drainage body within the meaning of the Land Drainage Act 1991 M2 of improvement works within the meaning of [F4 the Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) Regulations 1999];

F5 (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(d) development for which permission is granted by Part 7, Class D of Part 8, Part 11, Class B of Part 12, Class F(a) of Part 17, Class A or Class B of Part 20 or Class B of Part 21 of Schedule 2;

(e) development for which permission is granted by Class C or Class D of Part 20, Class A of Part 21 or Class B of Part 22 of Schedule 2 where the land in, on or under which the development is to be carried out is—

(i) in the case of Class C or Class D of Part 20, on the same authorised site,

(ii) in the case of Class A of Part 21, on the same premises or, as the case may be, the same ancillary mining land,

(iii) in the case of Class B of Part 22, on the same land or, as the case may be, on land adjoining that land,

as that in, on or under which development of any description permitted by the same Class has been carried out before [F6 14th March 1999];

(f) the completion of any development begun before [F7 14th March 1999];

[F8 (g) development for which permission is granted by Class B of Part 13.]

F9 [F10 (13) Where a person uses electronic communications for making any application required to be made under any of Parts 6, 7, 22, 23, 24, 30 or 31 of Schedule 2, that person shall be taken to have agreed—

(a) to the use of electronic communications for all purposes relating to his application which are capable of being effected using such communications;

(b) that his address for the purpose of such communications is the address incorporated into, or otherwise logically associated with, his application; and

(c) that his deemed agreement under this paragraph shall subsist until he gives notice in writing that he wishes to revoke the agreement (and such revocation shall be final and shall take effect on a date specified by him but not less than seven days after the date on which the notice is given).]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in art. 3(8) substituted (1.3.1996) by The Gas Act 1995 (Consequential Modifications of Subordinate Legislation) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/252), art. 1, Sch.

F2 Art. 3(10)(11) substituted (14.3.1999) by The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/293), regs. 1(1), 35(3)

F3 Art. 3(12)(a) revoked (14.3.1999) by The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/293), reg. 1(1), Sch. 5 (with reg. 34(2))

F4 Words in art. 3(12)(b) substituted (21.7.1999) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1783), regs. 1(1), 15(3)

F5 Art. 3(12)(c) revoked (14.3.1999) by The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/293), reg. 1(1), Sch. 5 (with reg. 34(2))

F6 Words in art. 3(12)(e) substituted (14.3.1999) by The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/293), regs. 1(1), 35(4)

F7 Words in art. 3(12)(f) substituted (14.3.1999) by The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/293), regs. 1(1), 35(4)

F8 Art. 3(12)(g) inserted (W.) (7.6.2006) by The Town and Country Planning (Miscellaneous Amendments and Modifications relating to Crown Land) (Wales) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1386), arts. 1(1), 3(4)

F9 Art. 3(13) added (W.) (1.1.2005) by The Town and Country Planning (Electronic Communications) (Wales) (No. 1) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/3156), art. 1(1), Sch. 3 para. 3

F10 Art. 3(13) added (E.) (31.3.2003) by The Town and Country Planning (Electronic Communications) (England) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/956), art. 1(1), Sch. 6 para. 3

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Art. 3(10) excluded (22.7.2008) by Crossrail Act 2008 (c. 18), s. 15(1)

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 1994/2716.

M2 1991 c. 59. The definition of “drainage body" is to be found in section 72(1).