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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-scotland-order-1992/note",
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  "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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order consolidates with amendments the procedural provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Development) (Scotland) Order 1981 and subsequent amending instruments. A separate Order, the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Order 1992 (SI 1992/223), consolidates the remaining provisions which deal with permitted development.\nThe Order specifies the procedures connected with planning applications, appeals to the Secretary of State and related matters so far as these are not laid down in the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972, it also deals with the maintenance of registers of planning applications, applications for established use certificates and other related matters.\nThe main changes of substance made by the Order are that—\n(a) the neighbour notification provisions (article 9) have been amended to reflect the fact that domestic property is no longer entered in the valuation roll by—\n(i) removing the requirement to notify the owners, occupiers and lessees of dom estic property by name, and instead requiring separate notices to be addressed to “the owner” and “the occupier” in respect of each address of premises comprising neighbouring land; and\n(ii) requiring, in the case of non-domestic property, where information as to the name of the owner, lessee or occupier cannot be ascertained from the valuation roll, notification to be sent addressed, in each case where the relevant names cannot be ascertained, to “the owner”, “the lessee” or “the occupier” of the property comprising neighbouring land;\n(b) article 9 has also been amended to require a location plan of the site to be included with the notification;\n(c) the list of statutory consultees (article 15) has been extended; and\n(d) the prescribed form notifying landowners of a planning application or planning appeal in respect of their land has been amended to include a statement that their rights to retain or dispose of the land are unaffected, but that the grant of planning permission for non-agricultural development may affect agricultural tenants' security of tenure.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/224/note",
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  "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."
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