{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-england-amendment-no-4-order-2020/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-england-amendment-no-4-order-2020/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1459",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) (No. 4) Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-england-amendment-no-4-order-2020",
  "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) (England) Order 2015(S.I.2015/596) (“the GPDO”).\nArticle 2 amends Class A and Class AA of Part 20 of Schedule 2 to the GPDO. It introduces a requirement for a developer seeking prior approval under those classes in relation to an existing building, which is 18 metres or more in height, to provide a report from a chartered engineer or other competent professional confirming that the external wall construction of the existing building complies with paragraph B4(1) of Schedule 1 to the Building Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2214) to the local planning authority.\nArticle 3 makes transitional and saving provision applicable where a prior approval application was made or prior approval event occurred before the coming into force of the amendments made by article 2.\nA full impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1459/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:21:06.625842+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."
}