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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-and-use-classes-scotland-miscellaneous-amendment-order-2023/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2023/35",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development and Use Classes) (Scotland) Miscellaneous Amendment Order 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-and-use-classes-scotland-miscellaneous-amendment-order-2023",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Order 1992 (“the 1992 Order”), and the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Scotland) Order 1997 (“the Use Classes Order”).\nArticle 5 amends classes 9E and 9F in Part 2D of the 1992 Order (recharging electrical outlets). In particular, it alters the limitations on the permitted development and includes equipment and equipment housing in class 9F.\nArticle 7 inserts new Parts 2H and 2I into the 1992 Order. Part 2H contains class 9L providing permitted development rights for outdoor servery provision, and Part 2I contains class 9M providing permitted development rights for solar canopies, battery storage and equipment housing for recharging vehicles.\nArticle 8 inserts new classes 11A and 11B into the 1992 Order which provide permitted developent rights for changes of use.\nArticle 11 amends class 30 (the erection or construction and the maintenance, improvement or other alteration by a loacal authority) of the 1992 Order to provide that this permitted development right includes electric vehicle charging points and associated infrastructure.\nArticle 12 amends class 35 (dock, pier, harbour, water transport, canal or inland navigation undertakings) of the 1992 Order. In particular this clarifies that agents of statutory undertakers may carry out development permitted by this class, and extends the permitted development right to include development in connection with the provision of services and facilities, subject to limitations. The amendment also provides the the permitted development right is subject to the condition that the planning authority is notified.\nArticle 13 amends the Use Classes Order to replace use class 1 (shops) and use class 2 (financial, professional and other services) with new use class 1A (shops, and financial, professional and other services). Articles 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10 make amendments to the 1992 Order in consequence of this amendment of the Use Classes Order.\nA Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared for these Regulations and placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Copies can be obtained from the Scottish Government Planning, Architecture and Regeneration Division, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh EH6 6QQ.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2023/35/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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