SCHEDULE 2 E+W

PART 17 E+WDEVELOPMENT BY STATUTORY UNDERTAKERS

Class F [F1 Public gas transporters] E+W

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 17 substituted (1.3.1996) by The Gas Act 1995 (Consequential Modifications of Subordinate Legislation) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/252), art. 1, Sch.

Permitted development E+W

F.  Development by a [F1 public gas transporter] required for the purposes of its undertaking consisting of—

(a) the laying underground of mains, pipes or other apparatus;

(b) the installation in a gas distribution system of apparatus for measuring, recording, controlling or varying the pressure, flow or volume of gas, and structures for housing such apparatus;

(c) the construction in any storage area or protective area specified in an order made under section 4 of the Gas Act 1965 M1 (storage authorisation orders), of boreholes, and the erection or construction in any such area of any plant or machinery required in connection with the construction of such boreholes;

(d) the placing and storage on land of pipes and other apparatus to be included in a main or pipe which is being or is about to be laid or constructed in pursuance of planning permission granted or deemed to be granted under Part III of the Act (control over development);

(e) the erection on operational land of the [F1 public gas transporter] of a building solely for the protection of plant or machinery;

(f) any other development carried out in, on, over or under the operational land of the [F1 public gas transporter].

Marginal Citations

M1 1965 c. 36; section 4 was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 7, and Part I of Schedule 9, to the Gas Act 1986 (c. 44), and by paragraph 12 of Schedule 2 to the Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11).