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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/thurrock-development-corporation-planning-functions-order-2005/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2572",
  "legislation_title": "The Thurrock Development Corporation (Planning Functions) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/thurrock-development-corporation-planning-functions-order-2005",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Planning functions of the development corporation",
  "text": "(1) Subject to articles 5 and 6, the development corporation shall be the local planning authority for the development area for the purposes of Part 3 of the 1990 Act in relation to the following kinds of development—\n(a) development which comprises or includes the provision of 50 or more houses, flats or houses and flats;\n(b) development which comprises or includes the provision of 2500 or more square metres of floorspace for a use falling within any or all of the following Classes of the Use Classes Order—\n(i) class A1 (retail);\n(ii) class A2 (financial and professional);\n(iii) class A3 (restaurants and cafes);\n(iv) class A4 (drinking establishments);\n(v) class A5 (hot food takeaways)\n(vi) class B1 (business);\n(vii) class B2 (general industrial);\n(viii) class B8 (storage and distribution);\n(c) development which comprises or includes the provision of 1000 or more square metres of floorspace for a use falling within any or all of the following Classes of the Use Classes Order—\n(i) class C2 (residential institutions);\n(ii) class D1 (non-residential institutions); and\n(iii) class D2 (assembly and leisure);\n(d) development which occupies 1 hectare or more of land;\n(e) development which comprises or includes the provision of buildings which are 15 metres or more in height;\n(f) development which comprises or includes the winning and working of minerals in, on or under land of 2 hectares or more, whether by surface or underground working;\n(g) any recycling development to provide an installation with capacity for a throughput of more than 5,000 tonnes a year of refuse or waste materials produced outside the land in respect of which planning permission is sought;\n(h) any waste development to provide an installation with capacity for a throughput of more than 20,000 tonnes a year of refuse of waste materials produced outside the land in respect of which planning permission is sought;\n(i) development for a use, other than residential use, which includes the provision of 50 or more car parking spaces;\n(j) any development on land adjoining the River Thames which is—\n(i) below the level of the River Thames mean high water springs; or\n(ii) within 250 metres or less of the River Thames mean high water springs; and\n(iii) which would involve the construction of a building with 100 or more square metres of floorspace or a material change in the use of such a building;\n(k) development—\n(i) on land allocated as Green Belt in the development plan, in proposals for such a plan, or in proposals for the alteration of such a plan; and\n(ii) which would involve the construction of a building with 500 or more square metres of floorspace or a material change in the use of such a building;\n(l) development to provide or extend—\n(i) an aircraft runway, airfield or aerodrome;\n(ii) a heliport (including a floating heliport and a helipad on a building);\n(iii) an air passenger terminal at an airport;\n(iv) a railway station;\n(v) a bus or coach station;\n(vi) a crossing over or under the River Thames; or\n(vii) a pier on the River Thames;\n(m) development wholly or mainly for the provision of a highway (other than a bridleway, cycle way or footpath);\n(n) development which is likely to result in the loss of 20 or more houses, flats or houses and flats (irrespective of whether the development would also entail the provision of new houses or flats);\n(o) development on land with an area of 1 hectare or more which—\n(i) is likely to prejudice the use, or lead to the loss of use, of land being used as a playing field; or\n(ii) is on land which has been—\n(aa) used as a playing field at any time in the five years before the making of the relevant application for planning permission and which remains undeveloped; or\n(bb) allocated for use as a playing field in a development plan or in proposals for such a plan or its alteration or replacement;\n(p) development which is not of a kind specified in any of the preceding sub-paragraphs but which forms part of more substantial proposed development of such a kind on the same land or adjoining land in the development area.\n(2) In deciding whether development forms part of more substantial development, there shall be taken into account other development of the same land or adjoining land in the development area—\n(a) in respect of which an application for planning permission has been made but not finally determined on the date the relevant application is received;\n(b) in respect of which planning permission has been granted within the period of five years immediately preceding that date; or\n(c) which has been substantially completed within the period of five years immediately preceding that date.\n(3) For the purposes of this article—\n(a) development occupies that area in respect of which the application for planning permission for the development seeks planning permission;\n(b) “floorspace” shall be calculated by external measurement;\n(c) “highway”, “bridleway”, “cycle path” and “footpath” have the same meaning as in section 329 of the Highways Act 1980;\n(d) “playing field” has the same meaning as in article 10(2)(l) of the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995;\n(e) “recycling development” means any operational development designed to be used wholly or mainly for the purpose of, or a material change of use to, recycling of refuse or waste materials;\n(f) references to recycling waste include re-using it (whether or not the waste is subjected to any process); and\n(g) “waste development” means any operational development designed to be used wholly or mainly for the purpose of, or a material change of use to, treating, keeping, processing, recovering or disposing of refuse or waste materials.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 66."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/419. which was amended by S.I. 1996/817."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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