{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1962/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1962/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/38",
  "legislation_title": "Town and Country Planning Act 1962",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1962",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Conditional grant of planning permission",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) of the last preceding section, conditions may be imposed on the grant of planning permission thereunder—\n(a) for regulating the development or use of any land under the control of the applicant (whether or not it is land in respect of which the application was made) or requiring the carrying out of works on any such land, so far as appears to the local planning authority to be expedient for the purposes of or in connection with the development authorised by the permission ;\n(b) for requiring the removal of any buildings or works authorised by the permission, or the discontinuance of any use of land so authorised, at the end of a specified period, and the carrying out of any works required for the reinstatement of land at the end of that period.\n(2) Any planning permission granted subject to such a condition as is mentioned in paragraph (b) of the preceding subsection is in this Act referred to as “planning permission granted for a limited period ”.\n(3) Where—\n(a) planning permission is granted for development consisting of or including the carrying out of building or other operations, subject to a condition that the operations shall be commenced not later than a time specified in the condition, and\n(b) any building or other operations are commenced after the time so specified,\nthe commencement and carrying out of those operations do not constitute development for which that permission was granted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/38/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:02:52.539255+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}