{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-amendment-order-1996/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-amendment-order-1996/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1817",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Amendment) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-amendment-order-1996",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Definition of “playing field” and “playing pitch”",
  "text": "In article 10(2) of the 1995 Order—\n(a) at the end of paragraph (j), delete “and”;\n(b) after paragraph (k) insert—\n“; and\n(l) in paragraph (z)—\n(i) “playing field” means the whole of a site which encompasses at least one playing pitch;\n(ii) “playing pitch” means a delineated area which, together with any run-off area, is of 0.4 hectares or more, and which is used for association football, American football, rugby, cricket, hockey, lacrosse, rounders, baseball, softball, Australian football, Gaelic football, shinty, hurling, polo or cycle polo.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1817/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:39:08.401818+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."
}