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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-northwood-headquarters-special-development-order-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-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": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Parameters",
  "text": "(1) No temporary building or structure that—\n(a) is or forms part of relevant development, and\n(b) is erected for a purpose specified in the first column of Table 1,\nmay exceed the height specified in the corresponding row of the second column of Table 1.\nTable 1\nPurpose of development\nMaximum permitted height\nProviding facilities and amenities for construction workers\n18 metres\nNoise attenuation (including by means of fences and hoardings)\n8 metres\nProtection of construction work (otherwise than by means of fences and hoardings)\n28 metres\nPreparation and storage of concrete and other materials for use in construction work\n22 metres\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), no construction work may result in a permanent building or structure that—\n(a) is or forms part of relevant development, and\n(b) falls within a type specified in the first column of Table 2,\nwhose height exceeds that specified in the corresponding row of the second column of Table 2.\nTable 2\nType of building or structure\nMaximum permitted height\nMulti-storey car park\n22 metres\nLiving accommodation for single personnel, other personnel and their families\n15 metres\nOther buildings within the type specified in article 4(2)(a)\n23 metres\nGates, fences or other means of enclosure, including perimeter fencing\n5.4 metres\n(3) With the Secretary of State’s prior written consent, a building or structure may exceed the maximum height specified for it under sub-paragraph (2) by up to 10%.\n(4) Subject to sub-paragraph (5), no relevant development may, either by itself or taken together with other relevant development, result in there being available—\n(a) more than 1,140 designated car parking spaces in multi-storey car parks on the Order land, or\n(b) in other buildings on the Order land—\n(i) more than 10,550 square metres of net additional floorspace for living accommodation, or\n(ii) more than 28,820 square metres of net additional floorspace for uses other than living accommodation or car parking.\n(5) With the Secretary of State’s prior written consent, relevant development may result in the amount of net additional floorspace available in buildings on the Order land for a use specified in sub-paragraph (4)(b)(i) or (ii) exceeding, by up to 10%, the amount of net additional floorspace specified in respect of that use in sub-paragraph 4(b)(i) or (ii).\n(6) A consent under sub-paragraph (3) or sub-paragraph (5) must be given in a relevant approval notice or subsequent approval notice.\n(7) For the purposes of this paragraph—\n(a) a reference to the height of a building or other structure is a reference to its height when measured from—\n(i) the level of the surface of the ground adjoining the building or structure;\n(ii) if the level of the surface of the ground where the building or structure is situated or is to be situated is not uniform, the level of the highest part of the surface of the ground adjacent to it;\n(b) any measurement of the height of a building or structure is to be undertaken disregarding any plant, equipment or apparatus attached to that building or structure;\n(c) floorspace in a building is to be calculated by using its external dimensions only;\n(d) the amount of net additional floorspace available for a use specified in sub-paragraph (4)(b)(i) or (ii) that results from relevant development is to be calculated as—\nA-B where—\nA is the aggregate amount of floorspace made available for the first time for that use on completion of that relevant development, solely as a result of the erection, installation, extension or alteration of a building in, on, under or over the Order land, and not as a result of any relevant change of use;\nB is the aggregate amount of floorspace ceasing to be available for that use on completion of that relevant development, solely as a result of the decommissioning, removal, demolition or alteration of a building in, on, under or over the Order land and not as a result of any relevant change of use.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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