The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2017

Amendments in relation to the erection, extension or alteration of a school

6.  In Class M of Part 7 of Schedule 2—

(a) for paragraph M.1(a)(ii), substitute—

“(ii) in the case of a school, 250 square metres and in all other cases, 100 square metres,”;

(b) in paragraph M.1(b), at the beginning, insert “in the case of a college, university or hospital building,”;

(c) after paragraph M.1(b), insert—

“(ba) in the case of a school, where any land adjacent to the site is used for a purpose within Part C of the Schedule to the Use Classes Order (residential purposes), if any part of the proposed development is within 5 metres of the boundary of the curtilage of that residential land;”; and

(d) in paragraph M.3, in the paragraph relating to the interpretation of “school”, after “(changes of use)” insert “or which was erected by virtue of Class CA of Part 4 of this Schedule (temporary buildings and uses)”.