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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-order-1995/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/418",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-order-1995",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Directions restricting permitted development",
  "text": "(1) If the Welsh Ministers or the appropriate local planning authority are satisfied that it is expedient that development described in any Part, Class or paragraph in Schedule 2, other than Class B of Part 22 or Class B of Part 23, should not be carried out unless permission is granted for it on an application, ... they may give a direction under this paragraph that the permission granted by article 3 shall not apply to—\n(a) all or any development of the Part, Class or paragraph in question in an area specified in the direction; or\n(b) any particular development, falling within that Part, Class or paragraph, which is specified in the direction,\nand the direction shall specify that it is made under this paragraph.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) A direction under paragraph (1) ... shall not affect the carrying out of—\n(a) development permitted by Part 11 authorised by an Act passed after 1st July 1948 or by an order requiring the approval of both Houses of Parliament approved after that date;\n(aa) development permitted by Class B of Part 13;\n(aaa) development permitted by Part 24 which consists of the installation, alteration or replacement of a Regulation 2020/1070 small cell system;\n(ab) development permitted by Part 37 or Part 38;\n(b) any development in an emergency other than development permitted by Part 37; or\n(c) any development mentioned in Part 24, unless the direction specifically so provides but this is subject to paragraph (3A).\n(3A) A direction under paragraph (1) ... may not affect the carrying out of development consisting of the installation, alteration or replacement of a Regulation 2020/1070 small cell system.\n(4) A direction given or having effect as if given under this article shall not, unless the direction so provides, affect the carrying out by a statutory undertaker of the following descriptions of development—\n(a) the maintenance of bridges, buildings and railway stations;\n(b) the alteration and maintenance of railway track, and the provision and maintenance of track equipment, including signal boxes, signalling apparatus and other appliances and works required in connection with the movement of traffic by rail;\n(c) the maintenance of docks, harbours, quays, wharves, canals and towing paths;\n(d) the provision and maintenance of mechanical apparatus or appliances (including signalling equipment) required for the purposes of shipping or in connection with the embarking, disembarking, loading, discharging or transport of passengers, livestock or goods at a dock, quay, harbour, bank, wharf or basin;\n(e) any development required in connection with the improvement, maintenance or repair of watercourses or drainage works;\n(f) the maintenance of buildings, runways, taxiways or aprons at an aerodrome;\n(g) the provision, alteration and maintenance of equipment, apparatus and works at an aerodrome, required in connection with the movement of traffic by air (other than buildings, the construction, erection, reconstruction or alteration of which is permitted by Class A of Part 18 of Schedule 2).\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5A) The procedures which must be followed in making, varying or withdrawing any direction made under paragraph (1), are set out in Schedule 2A.\n(6) In this article and in Schedule 2A —\n“appropriate local planning authority\" means—\n(a)in relation to a conservation area in a non-metropolitan county in England, the county planning authority or the district planning authority; and\n(b)in relation to any other area, the local planning authority whose function it would be to determine an application for planning permission for the development to which the direction relates or is proposed to relate;\n“Regulation 2020/1070 small cell system” has the same meaning as in Part 24 of Schedule 2;\n...",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (E.) (15.4.2015) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/596), art. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 1 (with arts. 1(2), 8(2)(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(1) substituted (W.) (20.10.2022) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development etc.) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/997), arts. 1, 2(2)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(1) substituted (W.) (20.10.2022) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development etc.) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/997), arts. 1, 2(2)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(1) omitted (W.) (20.10.2022) by virtue of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development etc.) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/997), arts. 1, 2(2)(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 4(2) omitted (W.) (20.10.2022) by virtue of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development etc.) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/997), arts. 1, 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(3) omitted (W.) (20.10.2022) by virtue of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development etc.) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/997), arts. 1, 2(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Art. 4(3)(aa)(ab) inserted (W.) (7.6.2006) by The Town and Country Planning (Miscellaneous Amendments and Modifications relating to Crown Land) (Wales) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1386), arts. 1(1), 3(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Art. 4(3)(aaa) inserted (W.) (21.12.2020) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (No. 3) (Wales) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1318), arts. 1(2), 4(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(3)(b) inserted (W.) (7.6.2006) by The Town and Country Planning (Miscellaneous Amendments and Modifications relating to Crown Land) (Wales) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1386), arts. 1(1), 3(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(3)(c) inserted (W.) (21.12.2020) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (No. 3) (Wales) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1318), arts. 1(2), 4(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Art. 4(3A) inserted (W.) (21.12.2020) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (No. 3) (Wales) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1318), arts. 1(2), 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(3A) omitted (W.) (20.10.2022) by virtue of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development etc.) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/997), arts. 1, 2(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Art. 4(5) omitted (W.) (20.10.2022) by virtue of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development etc.) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/997), arts. 1, 2(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Art. 4(5A) inserted (W.) (20.10.2022) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development etc.) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/997), arts. 1, 2(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(6) substituted (W.) (20.10.2022) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development etc.) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/997), arts. 1, 2(2)(f)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(6)(a) inserted (1.4.1996) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/528), arts. 1, 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(6) inserted (W.) (21.12.2020) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (No. 3) (Wales) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1318), arts. 1(2), 4(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(6) omitted (20.10.2022) by virtue of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development etc.) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/997), arts. 1, 2(2)(f)(ii)"
    }
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