{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-amendment-no-6-order-1992/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-amendment-no-6-order-1992/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2450",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) (No. 6) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-amendment-no-6-order-1992",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "British Coal mining development",
  "text": "In Part 20 of Schedule 2 to the 1988 Order—\n(a) for Class A, substitute—\n“Class A\nPermitted development\nA Development by the British Coal Corporation, their lessees or licencees, in a mine started before 1st July 1948, consisting of—\n(a) the winning and working underground of coal or coal- related minerals in a designated seam area; or\n(b) the carrying out of development underground which is required in order to gain access to and work coal or coal-related minerals in a designated seam area.\nDevelopment not permitted\nA.1 Development is not permitted by Class A in a designated seam area after 30 September 1993 unless a seam plan for that area has, before that date, been deposited with the mineral planning authority.\nInterpretation\nA.2 For the purposes of Class A—\n“designated seam area” means—\n(i) where no seam plan has been deposited with the mineral planning authority for a mine, land comprising the maximum extent of the coal seam or seams that can be worked from shafts or drifts existing at the mine at the date of the coming into force of this Class, without further development on an authorised site other than development permitted by Class B;\nor\n(ii) where a seam plan has been so deposited, land identified in that seam plan in accordance with paragraph (a) of the definition of “seam plan”;\n“coal-related minerals” means minerals other than coal referred to in paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1 to the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946;\n“seam plan” means a plan or plans on a scale of not less than 1 to 25,000 showing—\n(a) land comprising the maximum extent of the coal seam or seams that can be worked from shafts or drifts existing at a mine at the date of the coming into force of this Class, without further development on an authorised site other than development permitted by Class B;\n(b) any active access used in connection with the land referred to in paragraph (a);\n(c) the National Grid lines and reference numbers shown on Ordnance Survey maps;\n(d) a typical stratigraphic column showing the approximate depths of the coal seams referred to in paragraph (a).”;\n(b) omit Class D.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1946 c. 59."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/418",
      "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2450/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:15:11.528388+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."
}