# The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Scotland) Order 1992, Article 26: Application for established use certificates


An application to a planning authority for an established use certificate—
(a) shall be in writing;
(b) shall give the following particulars:—
(i) the address or location of the land to which the application relates;
(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;
(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;
(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;
(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;
(vi) the nature of the applicant’s interest in the land;
(vii) a statement of the grounds as set out in section 90(1) of the Act, upon which a certificate is sought; and
(viii) any other information which can substantiate or make good the claim; and
(c) shall be accompanied by—
(i) such plans as are sufficient to identify the land to which the application relates;
(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
(iii) one or other of the certificates specified in article 27.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/224/article/26 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-scotland-order-1992/article-26
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