The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) Order 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (“the 1995 Order”).

Classes A and B of Part 6 of Schedule 2 to the 1995 Order grant planning permission for specified agricultural buildings and operations.

Article 2 amends Classes A and B by imposing conditions on permitted development rights consisting of the erection, significant extension or significant alteration of buildings where the use of such development for agricultural purposes permanently ceases within ten years of its substantial completion. Where planning permission has not been granted authorising development for purposes other than agriculture within three years of the permanent cessation of its agricultural use, and there is no outstanding appeal, the development must be removed unless the local planning authority have otherwise agreed in writing and the land must, so far as practicable, be restored to its former condition unless the local planning authority and the developer have otherwise agreed in writing.