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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/west-northamptonshire-development-corporation-planning-functions-order-2006/article-4",
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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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Planning functions of the development corporation in the central planning functions area",
  "text": "(1) Subject to articles 7 and 8, the development corporation shall be the local planning authority for the central planning functions area for the purposes of Part 3 of the 1990 Act in relation to all kinds of development except for—\n(a) development which would be permitted by any Part of Schedule 2 to the GPDO but for a direction given or having effect as given under article 4 (directions restricting permitted development) of the GPDO;\n(b) development which falls within Parts 6, 7, 11, 17, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 30 or 31 of Schedule 2 to the GPDO and in relation to which approval or prior approval of the local planning authority is required;\n(c) subject to paragraph (2), operational development—\n(i) consisting of the enlargement, improvement or other alteration of a dwellinghouse; or\n(ii) on land within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse;\n(d) to the extent that it is not specified in sub-paragraph (a) to (c), development by or on behalf of an electronic communications code operator for the purpose of the operator’s electronic communications network; and\n(e) to the extent that it is not otherwise specified in this paragraph, development which is primarily for the installation, alteration or replacement of a microwave antenna or a satellite antenna.\n(2) Paragraph (1)(c) does not apply where the development will result in the provision of one or more additional dwellinghouses.\n(3) For the purposes of this article—\n(a) “dwellinghouse” includes a building containing one or more flats, and a flat contained within such a building;\n(b) “electronic communications code operator” and “electronic communications network” have the same meaning as in the Communications Act 2003; and\n(c) “microwave antenna” and “satellite antenna” have the same meaning as in article 1(2) of the GDPO.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "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/4",
    "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."
}