{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-environmental-assessment-and-permitted-development-regulations-1995/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-environmental-assessment-and-permitted-development-regulations-1995/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/417",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Assessment and Permitted Development) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-environmental-assessment-and-permitted-development-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“prospective developer” means a person, other than a relevant planning authority or a person who intends to undertake development with such an authority (whether or not with any other person), who is minded to undertake development which appears to him to be relevant development;\n“relevant development” means development of any description specified in Schedule 2 to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 other than development of any description specified in article 3(12) of that Order;\n“relevant planning authority” means the body by whom, assuming no direction were given under section 77 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, an application for planning permission in respect of the development concerned would be determined;\n“Schedule 1” means Schedule 1 to the Town and Country Planning (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1988; and\n“Schedule 2” means Schedule 2 to those Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/418."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1990 c. 8. Section 77 was amended by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34), Schedule 7, paragraph 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/1199; S.I. 1990/367 and 1994/677 are relevant amending instruments."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/107",
      "affecting_title": "The Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/417/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:16:00.763245+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."
}