The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 No. 596

SCHEDULE 2 E+W Permitted development rights

PART 17 E+W Mining and mineral exploration

[F1 Class JA – temporary use of land etc in respect of petroleum exploration E+W

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2 Pt. 17 Class JA and cross-heading inserted (6.4.2016) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/332), arts. 1, 14(b)

Development not permitted E+W

JA.1.   Development is not permitted by Class JA if—

(a) any operation would be carried out within 50 metres of any part of an occupied residential building or a building occupied as a hospital or school;

(b) any operation would be carried out within a National Park, an area of outstanding natural beauty, a site of archaeological interest, a site of special scientific interest or the Broads;

(c) any explosive charge of more than 1 kilogram would be used;

(d) any structure assembled or provided would exceed 15 metres in height, or, where the structure would be within 3 kilometres of the perimeter of an aerodrome, 3 metres in height;

(e) in the case of boreholes for locating and appraising the condition of mines, the borehole exceeds 160 metres in depth; or

(f) drilling would be carried out within a protected groundwater source area.]