{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-scotland-order-1992/article-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-scotland-order-1992/article-26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/224",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Scotland) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-scotland-order-1992",
  "path": "article/26",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Application for established use certificates",
  "text": "An application to a planning authority for an established use certificate—\n(a) shall be in writing;\n(b) shall give the following particulars:—\n(i) the address or location of the land to which the application relates;\n(ii) a description of the use in respect of which a certificate is sought, being a use subsisting on the date when the application is made;\n(iii) if there is more than one use of the land at the date when the application is made, a description of all uses of the land at that date and, where appropriate, an indication of the part of the land to which each of the uses relates;\n(iv) whether the use referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) above was begun before 1st January 1965 and, if not, the date when it was begun;\n(v) if the use referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) was begun on 1st January 1965 or a later date, particulars of the use of the land at 31st December 1964 and subsequent intervening uses, including the date when each such use began and ended;\n(vi) the nature of the applicant’s interest in the land;\n(vii) a statement of the grounds as set out in section 90(1) of the Act, upon which a certificate is sought; and\n(viii) any other information which can substantiate or make good the claim; and\n(c) shall be accompanied by—\n(i) such plans as are sufficient to identify the land to which the application relates;\n(ii) such supporting evidence as the applicant can provide in proof of his statements and, in a case where a certificate is being sought on ground (b) of section 90(1) of the Act (the use was begun from the beginning of 1965 under a planning permission granted subject to conditions or limitations, which either have never been complied with or have not been complied with since the end of 1964), a copy of the relevant planning permission or, where it is not possible to supply a copy, details of the condition in question and any particulars which can be furnished in order that the permission may be identified; and\n(iii) one or other of the certificates specified in article 27.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/224/article/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:29:49.669924+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."
}