# The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Order 1992, Paragraph Class 6N


(1) The installation, alteration or replacement of free standing solar PV or free standing solar thermal equipment within the curtilage of a non-domestic building.
(2) Development is not permitted by this class—
(a) if the cumulative surface area of the solar PV or solar thermal equipment within the curtilage of the building would exceed 12 square metres,
(b) within a conservation area if any part of that development would be in the front curtilage of the building,
(c) within—
(i) a national scenic area,
(ii) 3 kilometres of an aerodrome or technical site,
(iii) the curtilage of a listed building,
(iv) a historic garden or designed landscape,
(v) a National Park,
(vi) a World Heritage Site,
(d) it would be development described in class 6J(1).
(3) Development is permitted by this class subject to the condition that 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.
(4) In this class “front curtilage” means that part of the curtilage of the building forward of the principal elevation of the building.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/223/schedule/1/class/6n (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-scotland-order-1992/schedule-1/class/6n
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