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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-northwood-headquarters-special-development-order-2025/note",
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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",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order grants planning permission for the carrying out of certain classes of development at Northwood Headquarters, for the purpose of national defence, by or on behalf of the Secretary of State for Defence. The border of the land to which the Order applies (the “Order land”) is shown on a map, a copy of which is available for inspection, by appointment, at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF, and online from www.gov.uk.\nArticle 3(1) preserves the application to the Order land of certain permitted development rights set out in provisions of Schedule 2 to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 that are listed in Schedule 2 to the Order. These provisions apply subject to a modification specified in article 3(2).\nArticle 4(1) grants planning permission for material changes in the use of buildings or other land, for the retention of existing buildings for which temporary planning permission has previously been given, and for building and other operations of the types described in article 4(2). This last category includes the construction of offices, working spaces, living accommodation, car parking, and other facilities and amenities for specified categories of persons among those resident or working on, or visiting, the Order land. The planning permission granted by the Order is subject to the conditions in Schedule 1.\nArticle 5 requires the Secretary of State’s approval to be given before most development that is to be carried out under the article 4(1) planning permission is carried out (approval is not required for changes of use unless they are a “relevant change of use” as defined in article 2). Before such approval can be given, the Secretary of State must receive certain documents and information (see Schedule 3). Approval may be given by reference to such documents, and subject to conditions.\nArticle 6 sets out a procedure under which the Secretary of State may approve amendments or replacements of “approved documents” (defined in article 2), documents for which the Secretary of State’s approval is required and has not previously been given, or the variation, replacement or removal of conditions subject to which other approvals provided for in the Order have been given.\nArticle 7 requires the Secretary of State to make publicly available various documents referred to in the instrument, except to the extent that the Secretary of State considers that doing so may compromise the security of a building or structure in, on, under or over the Order land or the safety of those working or living in any such building or structure, or that it would otherwise be contrary to the national interest, having regard to considerations of defence, national security or international relations.\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument: as the instrument does not regulate business activity, it is not in the scope of the Government’s Better Regulation Framework.\nFor illustrative purposes only a plan of the land to which this Order applies is appended below.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "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, 2023/747, 2023/1110, 2023/1279, 2024/141, 2024/579."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/37/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:21:44.253762+00:00"
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  "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."
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