1. This Order may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Permission in Principle) Order 2017 and comes into force on 15th April 2017.
2. In this Order—
“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;
“brownfield land register” means a register kept under regulation 3 of the Town and Country Planning (Brownfield Land Register) Regulations 2017(1);
“dwelling” includes a flat contained within a building of one or more flats;
“flat” means a separate and self-contained set of premises constructed or adapted for use for the purpose of a dwelling and forming part of a building from some other part of which it is divided horizontally;
“housing development” means development for the provision of dwellings(2); and
“non-housing development” means development other than housing development.
Development is defined in section 55 of the 1990 Act and includes material change of use of buildings.