{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-scotland-order-1992/schedule-1/class/6hb",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-scotland-order-1992/schedule-1/class/6hb.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/223",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-scotland-order-1992",
  "path": "schedule/1/class/6hb",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "Class 6HB",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The installation, alteration or replacement of solar PV or solar thermal equipment on a building situated within the curtilage of a dwelling.\n(2) Development is not permitted by this class if—\n(a) it would protrude more than 500 millimetres from the outer surface of an external wall, roof plane, roof ridge or chimney of the building,\n(b) the building is situated in the front curtilage of the dwelling,\n(c) the building is—\n(i) a listed building or within the curtilage of a listed building,\n(ii) within a World Heritage Site,\n(d) it would be development described in class 6HA(1).\n(3) Development is permitted by this class subject to the condition that solar PV or solar thermal equipment which is no longer needed for, or capable of, the generation of electricity or the production of heat, as the case may be, must be removed as soon as reasonably practicable.\n(4) In this class “front curtilage” means that part of the curtilage of the dwelling forward of the principal elevation of the dwelling.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. 1A inserted (12.3.2009) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Domestic Microgeneration) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/34), arts. 1, 2(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. 1A Classes 6HA-6HC inserted (24.5.2024) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/102), arts. 1, 6(e) (with art. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/223/schedule/1/class/6hb",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:29:53.174501+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."
}