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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-amendment-order-1988-uksi-1988-1272/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1272",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-amendment-order-1988-uksi-1988-1272",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order is linked with the Town and Country Planning (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1988 (“the 1988 Regulations”), which are concerned with the implementation in England and Wales of the provisions of Council Directive 85/337/EEC (OJ No. L175, 5.7.85, p.40) on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment.\nThe Order amends the Town and Country Planning General Development Order 1977 to enable the Secretary of State to direct that development of a description set out in Schedule 1 or 2 to the 1988 Regulations is exempt development to which those Regulations do not apply; that particular proposed development is, or is not, development in respect of which the consideration of environmental information is required by those Regulations before planning permission can be granted; and that development of any class is development in respect of which the consideration of such information is so required.\nRegulation 2 of the 1988 Regulations defines “environmental information” to include a statement by the person seeking planning permission (conforming with Schedule 3 to those Regulations) of the likely significant environmental effects of the proposed development and representations made by bodies consulted and others.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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