Article 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

• “2015 Order” means the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015^f1;

• “approval condition” means—

  1. (a)

     a condition subject to which the Secretary of State gives a relevant approval or a subsequent approval, or

  2. (b)

     a condition subject to which the Secretary of State gives an approval under a condition within paragraph (a);

• “approved document” means—

  1. (a)

     a document or part of a document submitted by the Defence Secretary to the Secretary of State, to which reference is made—

     1. (i)

        in an approval condition,

     2. (ii)

        in a relevant approval notice, to specify the development for which relevant approval is given in that notice, or

     3. (iii)

        in a subsequent approval notice, to specify the relevant instrument or change, subsequent approval of which is given in that notice;

  2. (b)

     at any date after a document or part of a document within paragraph (a) is amended or replaced pursuant to a subsequent approval notice, that document or part of a document, as so amended or replaced at that date by one or more subsequent approval notices,

  and references to any particular approved document, including references in a relevant approval notice or approval condition, are to be construed accordingly;

• “construction work” means—

  1. (a)

     the erection, installation, provision, extension, maintenance, repair, improvement, alteration, decommissioning, removal or demolition of a building, structure, plant, equipment, machinery, sewer, main, pipe, cable or other apparatus;

  2. (b)

     engineering or other operations, including any—

     1. (i)

        excavation, other than mining operations;

     2. (ii)

        building, engineering or other operation, including construction, maintenance or repair of a road that facilitates the carrying out of other operations, or access to a building or structure;

• “construction worker” means a person engaged in construction work on the Order land;

• “Defence Secretary” means the Secretary of State for Defence;

• “European site” has the meaning given in regulation 8 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017^f2 (European sites and European marine sites);

• “the Map” means revision P05 of the map with reference number 1296Y16-TTE-ZZ-ZZ-DR-A-10012, submitted by the Defence Secretary to the Secretary of State;

• “new document” means a document—

  1. (a)

     for which the Defence Secretary is required to seek the Secretary of State’s approval pursuant to a Schedule 1 condition or an approval condition, and

  2. (b)

     in respect of which the Secretary of State has not previously given subsequent approval;

• “Order land” has the meaning given in article 1(4);

• “personnel” means persons, other than construction workers, who work on the Order land and are employed to do so;

• “relevant approval” means the Secretary of State’s prior approval for the carrying out of relevant development;

• “relevant approval notice” has the meaning given in article 5(1)(b) (relevant approvals);

• “relevant change of use” means any development that—

  1. (a)

     falls within the class specified in article 4(1)(a) (grant of planning permission), and

  2. (b)

     involves the change of use of a building or land—

     1. (i)

        from being used for living accommodation to another use;

     2. (ii)

        from another use to being used for living accommodation;

• “relevant development” means development carried out, or to be carried out, under the planning permission granted by article 4(1), that—

  1. (a)

     is a relevant change of use, or

  2. (b)

     falls within a class specified in article 4(1)(b) or (c);

• “relevant instrument or change” means—

  1. (a)

     a new document,

  2. (b)

     a document that embodies an amendment or replacement of an approved document,

  3. (c)

     a document that embodies a variation or replacement of an approval condition, or

  4. (d)

     the removal of an approval condition;

• “relevant submission” means a written submission to the Secretary of State seeking relevant approval for relevant development;

• “Schedule 1 condition” means a condition set out in Schedule 1 (conditions subject to which planning permission is granted);

• “the Secretary of State” means, except in the definition of “Defence Secretary”, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government;

• “subsequent approval” means the Secretary of State’s approval of a relevant instrument or change;

• “subsequent approval notice” has the meaning given in article 6(1)(b) (subsequent approvals).