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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/west-northamptonshire-development-corporation-planning-functions-order-2006/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/616",
  "legislation_title": "The West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (Planning Functions) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/west-northamptonshire-development-corporation-planning-functions-order-2006",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1980 Act” means the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980;\n“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;\n“the GPDO” means Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995;\n“the Use Classes Order” means the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987;\n“the development area” means the area designated as an urban development area by the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 2004;\n“the development corporation” means the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation;\n“the central planning functions area” and the “the outer planning functions area” means the areas described as such in article 3;\n“dwellinghouse” includes a flat; and\n“flat” means a separate self-contained set of premises constructed or adapted for use for the purpose of a dwelling and forming part of a building from some other part of which it is divided horizontally.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/418."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/764; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1991/1567, S.I. 1992/610, S.I. 1992/657, S.I. 1994/724, S.I. 1995/297, S.I. 1999/293, S.I. 2005/84 and S.I. 2006/220."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/3370."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "See article 3 of S.I. 2004/3370."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/560",
      "affecting_title": "The West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (Planning Functions) (Amendment) Order 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/616/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:35:26.458557+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."
}