The Town and Country Planning General Development Order 1988

PART 7 FORESTRY BUILDINGS AND OPERATIONS

Class A

Permitted development

A.  The carrying out on land used for the purposes of forestry, including afforestation, of development reasonably necessary for those purposes consisting of—

(a) works for the erection, extension or alteration of a building;

(b) the formation, alteration or maintenance of private ways;

(c) operations on that land, or on land held or occupied with that land, to obtain the materials required for the formation, alteration or maintenance of such ways,

(d) other operations (not including engineering or mining operations).

Development not permitted

A.1  Development is not permitted by this Class if—

(a) it would consist of or include the provision or alteration of a dwelling;

(b) the height of any building or works within 3 kilometres of the perimeter of an aerodrome would exceed 3 metres in height, or

(c) any part of the development would be within 25 metres of the metalled portion of a trunk or classified road.

Conditions

A.2  In the case of any article 1(6) land, development consisting of the erection, extension or alteration of a building or the formation or alteration of a private way is permitted by this class subject to the following conditions—

(a) the developer shall before beginning the development, give the local planning authority a written description of the proposed development and the materials to be used and a plan indicating the site, and shall not begin the development until a period of 28 days has elapsed from their receipt by the authority;

(b) if within 28 days of receiving that description and plan the local authority give the developer notice in writing to that effect, the development shall not be begun without the prior approval of that authority to the siting, design and external appearance of the building and the siting and means of construction of the private way;

(c) the development shall, except to the extent that the local planning authority have agreed otherwise in writing, be carried out in accordance with—

(i) any details approved by that authority in accordance with subparagraph (b), or

(ii) the description and indication of siting given to them under subparagraph (a);

(d) the development shall be carried out—

(i) where approval has been given by the local planning authority, within a period of five years from the date on which approval was given,

(ii) in any other case, within a period of five years from the date on which the local planning authority were given the information referred to in subparagraph (a).