{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-telecommunication-networks-railway-operational-land-special-development-order-1982/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-telecommunication-networks-railway-operational-land-special-development-order-1982/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1982/817",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Telecommunication Networks) (Railway Operational Land) Special Development Order 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-telecommunication-networks-railway-operational-land-special-development-order-1982",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The carrying out, on, in or under any land to which this order applies, of operations for the purposes of:—\n(a) the laying of telecommunication cables;\n(b) the installation of troughs to house such cables;\n(c) the erection or construction of structures to house signal regeneration equipment and the installation of such equipment;\n(d) the repair, maintenance, alteration or removal of cables, structures or equipment of the kinds described in paragraphs (a) to (c) above,\nis hereby permitted, subject to the following conditions:—\n(i) no structure shall be erected, constructed or extended in pursuance of this permission so as to have a height exceeding 3 metres from ground level or (except in the case of a trough to house a telecommunication cable) to cover a ground area exceeding 5 square metres;\n(ii) no development shall be carried out in pursuance of this permission after the expiration of the period of 25 years beginning with the date when this order comes into operation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2155",
      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/817/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:18:52.534885+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."
}