Explanatory note

This Order amends the Town and Country Planning General Development Order 1988 (“the 1988 Order”).

Article 2 makes a minor drafting amendment to article 12(2) of the 1988 Order which relates to notice of application for planning permission in respect of winning and working minerals.

Article 3(1) amends article 14(2)(a) of the 1988 Order. The effect of the amendment is to limit the exercise of the Secretary of State’s power to exempt development from the application of the Town and Country Planning (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1988 to cases where the requirements of Article 2(3) of Council Directive 85/337/EEC are satisfied.

Article 3(2) amends article 25 of the 1988 Order. The effect of the amendment is that where an applicant for planning permission has submitted an environmental statement, the local planning authority must include in its notification of any grant of planning permission a statement that they have taken the environmental information into consideration.

Article 4 amends Part 24 of Schedule 2 to the 1988 Order so that the installation, alteration or replacement of any telecommunication apparatus on, or within the curtilage of, a dwellinghouse is excluded from the development permitted by Class A(a) of that Part. Amendments are made to the circumstances in which development may be carried out in accordance with details submitted to or approved by the local planning authority (paragraph A.2(4)(v) of Part 24).