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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-north-wales-border-control-post-eu-exit-special-development-order-2023/schedule/paragraph-31",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2023/256",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (North Wales Border Control Post) (EU Exit) Special Development Order 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-north-wales-border-control-post-eu-exit-special-development-order-2023",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/31",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Relevant approval for new activity",
  "text": "(1) Where a new activity is proposed on the land the developer must submit a noise study to the local planning authority and obtain a relevant approval before the new activity may commence.\n(2) The noise study must outline if the new activity will negatively change the acoustic character of the noise output from the land.\n(3) In this paragraph, a “new activity” means—\n(a) the erection of a new building,\n(b) the addition of new hard surfacing,\n(c) the addition of new plant or machinery, or\n(d) where an existing building or hard surfacing is to be used for a different purpose,\nwhere these occurred after the relevant approval required by paragraph 17(2) was obtained.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (2), a change in acoustic character includes increases in—\n(a) low frequency noise;\n(b) tonal noise;\n(c) noise intermittency.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2023/256/schedule/paragraph/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:04:44.165397+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."
}