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

Class B Dock, pier, harbour, water transport, canal or inland navigation undertakings E+W

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 2 Pt. 17 para. B excluded (2.3.1999) by The Poole Harbour Revision Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/403), arts. 1(1), 16(b) (with art. 17)

Permitted development E+W

B.  Development on operational land by statutory undertakers or their lessees in respect of dock, pier, harbour, water transport, or canal or inland navigation undertakings, required—

(a) for the purposes of shipping, or

(b) in connection with the embarking, disembarking, loading, discharging or transport of passengers, livestock or goods at a dock, pier or harbour, or with the movement of traffic by canal or inland navigation or by any railway forming part of the undertaking.

Development not permitted E+W

B.1  Development is not permitted by Class B if it consists of or includes—

(a) the construction or erection of a hotel, or of a bridge or other building not required in connection with the handling of traffic,

(b) the construction or erection otherwise than wholly within the limits of a dock, pier or harbour of—

(i) an educational building, or

(ii) a car park, shop, restaurant, garage, petrol filling station or other building provided under transport legislation.

Interpretation of Class B E+W

B.2  For the purposes of Class B, references to the construction or erection of any building or structure include references to the reconstruction or alteration of a building or structure where its design or external appearance would be materially affected, and the reference to operational land includes land designated by an order made under section 14 or 16 of the Harbours Act 1964 M1 (orders for securing harbour efficiency etc., and orders conferring powers for improvement, construction etc. of harbours), and which has come into force, whether or not the order was subject to the provisions of the Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act 1945 M2 .

Marginal Citations

M1 1964 c. 40; section 14 was amended by paragaph 2, and sections 14 and 16 were amended by paragraphs 3, 4 and 14, of Schedule 6 to, and by Part II of Schedule 12 to, the Transport Act 1981 (c. 56); section 14 was amended by paragraph 1, and section 16 was amended by paragraph 2, of Schedule 3 to the Transport and Works Act 1992 (c. 42).

M2 1945 c. 18 (9 and 10 Geo. 6).