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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-northwood-headquarters-special-development-order-2025/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/37",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Northwood Headquarters) Special Development Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-northwood-headquarters-special-development-order-2025",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“2015 Order” means the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015;\n“approval condition” means—\n(a) a condition subject to which the Secretary of State gives a relevant approval or a subsequent approval, or\n(b) a condition subject to which the Secretary of State gives an approval under a condition within paragraph (a);\n“approved document” means—\n(a) a document or part of a document submitted by the Defence Secretary to the Secretary of State, to which reference is made—\n(i) in an approval condition,\n(ii) in a relevant approval notice, to specify the development for which relevant approval is given in that notice, or\n(iii) in a subsequent approval notice, to specify the relevant instrument or change, subsequent approval of which is given in that notice;\n(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,\nand references to any particular approved document, including references in a relevant approval notice or approval condition, are to be construed accordingly;\n“construction work” means—\n(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;\n(b) engineering or other operations, including any—\n(i) excavation, other than mining operations;\n(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;\n“construction worker” means a person engaged in construction work on the Order land;\n“Defence Secretary” means the Secretary of State for Defence;\n“European site” has the meaning given in regulation 8 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (European sites and European marine sites);\n“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;\n“new document” means a document—\n(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\n(b) in respect of which the Secretary of State has not previously given subsequent approval;\n“Order land” has the meaning given in article 1(4);\n“personnel” means persons, other than construction workers, who work on the Order land and are employed to do so;\n“relevant approval” means the Secretary of State’s prior approval for the carrying out of relevant development;\n“relevant approval notice” has the meaning given in article 5(1)(b) (relevant approvals);\n“relevant change of use” means any development that—\n(a) falls within the class specified in article 4(1)(a) (grant of planning permission), and\n(b) involves the change of use of a building or land—\n(i) from being used for living accommodation to another use;\n(ii) from another use to being used for living accommodation;\n“relevant development” means development carried out, or to be carried out, under the planning permission granted by article 4(1), that—\n(a) is a relevant change of use, or\n(b) falls within a class specified in article 4(1)(b) or (c);\n“relevant instrument or change” means—\n(a) a new document,\n(b) a document that embodies an amendment or replacement of an approved document,\n(c) a document that embodies a variation or replacement of an approval condition, or\n(d) the removal of an approval condition;\n“relevant submission” means a written submission to the Secretary of State seeking relevant approval for relevant development;\n“Schedule 1 condition” means a condition set out in Schedule 1 (conditions subject to which planning permission is granted);\n“the Secretary of State” means, except in the definition of “Defence Secretary”, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government;\n“subsequent approval” means the Secretary of State’s approval of a relevant instrument or change;\n“subsequent approval notice” has the meaning given in article 6(1)(b) (subsequent approvals).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2015/596, amended by S.I. 2016/332, 2016/765, 2016/1040, 2016/1154, 2017/391, 2017/571, 2017/619, 2017/1011, 2017/1012, 2018/119, 2018/343, 2018/695, 2019/907, 2020/330, 2020/412, 2020/632, 2020/755, 2020/756, 2020/1243, 2020/1459, 2021/428, 2021/467, 2021/814, 2021/1464, 2022/278, 2022/634, 2023/368, 2023/747, 2023/98, 2023/1110, 2023/1279, 2024/141, 2024/579, 2024/1139."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2017/1012, amended by S.I. 2019/579."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/37/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:21:44.253762+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."
}