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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-order-1995/schedule-2/part-11/crossheading-class-a/paragraph-A.3",
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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": "schedule/2/part/11/crossheading/class-a/paragraph/A.3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "A. 3",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Class A",
  "text": "In Class A, “appropriate authority\" means—\n(a) in Greater London or a metropolitan county, the local planning authority,\n(b) in a National Park in England, outside a metropolitan county, the county planning authority,\n(c) in any other case in England, the district planning authority .\n(d) in Wales, the local planning authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "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 Sch. 2 Pt. 11 Class A para. A.3(b) inserted (1.4.1996) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/528), arts. 1, 2(f)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 11 Class A para. A.3(c) inserted (1.4.1996) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/528), arts. 1, 2(f)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. 11 Class A para. A.3(d) added (1.4.1996) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/528), arts. 1, 2(f)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "For cases where functions have been transferred from the county council to the district council or vice versa see regulation 5 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/867) and section 1 of the Act."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/418/schedule/2/part/11/crossheading/class-a/paragraph/A.3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:15:58.850730+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."
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