{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-order-1988/schedule-2/part-6/chapter-1/paragraph-A.2", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-order-1988/schedule-2/part-6/chapter-1/paragraph-A.2.json", "legislation": "uksi/1988/1813", "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development Order 1988", "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-order-1988", "path": "schedule/2/part/6/chapter/1/paragraph/A.2", "kind": "paragraph", "number": "A.2", "heading": "Conditions", "text": "(1) Development is permitted by Class A subject to the following conditions—\n(a) where development is carried out within 400 metres of the curtilage of a protected building, any building, structure, excavation or works resulting from the development shall not be used for the accommodation of livestock or the storage of slurry or sewage sludge within a period of five years from the carrying out of those operations;\n(b) where the development involves—\n(i) the extraction of any mineral from the land or from any disused railway embankment on the land, or\n(ii) the removal of any mineral from a mineral-working deposit on the land,\nthe mineral shall not be moved off the land, unless planning permission for the winning and working of that mineral has been granted on an application made under Part III of the Act;\n(c) in the case of development which involves the deposit of waste materials on or under the land, no waste materials shall be brought onto the land from elsewhere except for development of the kind described in Class A(a) or the creation of a hard surface, where the materials are incorporated into the building or works forthwith.\n(2) In the case of any article 1(6) land, development consisting of the erection, extension or alteration of a building is permitted by Class A subject to the following conditions—\n(a) the developer shall, before beginning the development give the local planning authority a written description of the proposed development, the materials to be used and a plan indicating the site, and shall not begin the development until a period of 28 days has elapsed from their receipt by the authority;\n(b) if within 28 days of receiving that description and plan the local planning authority give the developer notice in writing to that effect, the development shall not be begun without the prior approval of that authority to the siting, design and external appearance of the building;\n(c) the development shall, except to the extent that the local planning authority have agreed otherwise in writing, be carried out in accordance with—\n(i) any details approved by that authority in accordance with subparagraph (b) above, or\n(ii) the description and indication of siting given to them under subparagraph (a) above;\n(d) the development shall be carried out—\n(i) where approval has been given by the local planning authority, within a period of five years from the date on which approval was given,\n(ii) in any other case, within a period of five years from the date on which the local planning authority were given the information referred to in subparagraph (a).", "extent": null, "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [], "outstanding_effects": [ { "type": "amended", "affecting": "uksi/1994/2595", "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1994" }, { "type": "substituted", "affecting": "uksi/1994/2595", "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1994" }, { "type": "revoked", "affecting": "uksi/1995/418", "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995" }, { "type": "amended", "affecting": "uksi/1992/1493", "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) (No. 4) Order 1992" }, { "type": "amended", "affecting": "uksi/1992/1493", "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) (No. 4) Order 1992" }, { "type": "amended", "affecting": "uksi/1991/1536", "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) Order 1991" }, { "type": "modified", "affecting": "ukla/1992/5", "affecting_title": "Avon Weir Act 1992" }, { "type": "modified", "affecting": "ukla/1992/5", "affecting_title": "Avon Weir Act 1992" }, { "type": "modified", "affecting": "ukla/1992/5", "affecting_title": "Avon Weir Act 1992" }, { "type": "added", "affecting": "uksi/1995/298", "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) Order 1995" }, { "type": "rev. in pt.", "affecting": "uksi/1995/298", "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) Order 1995" }, { "type": "added", "affecting": "uksi/1995/298", "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) Order 1995" }, { "type": "substituted", "affecting": "uksi/1992/2450", "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) (No. 6) Order 1992" }, { "type": "revoked", "affecting": "uksi/1992/2450", "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) (No. 6) Order 1992" }, { "type": "substituted", "affecting": "uksi/1992/2450", "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) (No. 6) Order 1992" }, { "type": "mod", "affecting": "uksi/1994/678", "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) Order 1994" }, { "type": "amended", "affecting": "uksi/1989/603", "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) Order 1989" }, { "type": "amended", "affecting": "uksi/1989/1590", "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1989" }, { "type": "added", "affecting": "uksi/1992/1280", "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 1992" }, { "type": "amended", "affecting": "uksi/1990/457", "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) Order 1990" }, { "type": "added", "affecting": "uksi/1992/609", "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) Order 1992" }, { "type": "modified", "affecting": "ukla/1992/18", "affecting_title": "Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) Act 1992" }, { "type": "amended", "affecting": "uksi/1990/2032", "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1990" }, { "type": "amended", "affecting": "uksi/1989/1968", "affecting_title": "The Water (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1989" } ], "provenance": { "source": "legislation.gov.uk", "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1813/schedule/2/part/6/chapter/1/paragraph/A.2", 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