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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-order-1995/schedule-2/part-40n1/paragraph-J",
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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/40n1/paragraph/J",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "J",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part 40",
  "text": "For the purposes of Part 40—\n“aerodrome”—\n(a)means any area of land or water designed, equipped, set apart, or commonly used for affording facilities for the landing and departure of aircraft; and\n(b)includes any area or space, whether on the ground, on the roof of a building or elsewhere, which is designed, equipped or set apart for affording facilities for the landing and departure of aircraft capable of descending or climbing vertically; but\n(c)does not include any area the use of which for affording facilities for the landing and departure of aircraft has been abandoned and has not been resumed;\n“anemometry mast” means a mast installed for the purpose of measuring wind speeds and directions;\n“block of flats” means a building which consists wholly of flats;\n“detached” means that the building does not share a party wall with a neighbouring building;\n“detached dwellinghouse” means a dwellinghouse or building, as the case may be, which does not share a party wall with a neighbouring building;\n“dwellinghouse” does not include a building containing one or more flats, or a flat contained within such a building;\n“flat” means a separate and self-contained premises constructed for use for the purposes of a dwellinghouse;\n“microgeneration” has the same meaning as in section 82(6) of the Energy Act 2004;\n“MCS Planning Standards” means the product and installation standards for air source heat pumps and wind turbines specified in Microgeneration Certificate Scheme MCS 020(a) and MCS 020(b) respectively\n“safeguarded land” means land which—\n(a)is necessary to be safeguarded for aviation or defence purposes; and\n(b)has been notified as such, in writing, to the Secretary of State by an aerodrome operator, NATS (EN ROUTE) PLC or the Secretary of State for Defence for the purposes of this Part;\n“stand alone solar” means solar PV or solar thermal equipment which is not installed on a building;\n“Stand alone wind turbine” means a wind turbine which is not fixed to a building.",
  "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": "Sch. 2 Pt. 40 substituted (W.) (18.6.2012) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1346), arts. 1(1), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 40 para. J inserted (W.) (1.6.2026) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2026 (W.S.I. 2026/79), arts. 1(2), 6(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 40 para. J substituted (W.) (1.6.2026) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2026 (W.S.I. 2026/79), arts. 1(2), 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 40 para. J inserted (W.) (1.6.2026) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2026 (W.S.I. 2026/79), arts. 1(2), 6(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 40 para. J substituted (W.) (1.6.2026) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2026 (W.S.I. 2026/79), arts. 1(2), 6(b)"
    }
  ],
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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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