{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-order-1995/schedule-2/part-22/crossheading-class-a/paragraph-A.1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-order-1995/schedule-2/part-22/crossheading-class-a/paragraph-A.1.json",
  "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/22/crossheading/class-a/paragraph/A.1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "A.1",
  "heading": "Development not permitted",
  "text": "Development is not permitted by Class A if–\n(a) it consists of the drilling of boreholes for petroleum exploration;\n(b) any operation would be carried out within 50 metres of any part of an occupied residential building or a building occupied as a hospital or school;\n(c) any operation would be carried out within a National Park, an area of outstanding natural beauty, a site of archaeological interest or a site of special scientific interest;\n(d) any explosive charge of more than 1 kilogram would be used;\n(e) any excavation referred to in paragraph A(c) would exceed 10 metres in depth or 12 square metres in surface area;\n(f) in the case described in paragraph A(c) more than 10 excavations would, as a result, be made within any area of 1 hectare within the land during any period of 24 months; or\n(g) any structure assembled or provided would exceed 12 metres in height, or, where the structure would be within 3 kilometres of the perimeter of an aerodrome, 3 metres in height.",
  "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))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/418/schedule/2/part/22/crossheading/class-a/paragraph/A.1",
    "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."
}