Agricultural buildings and land: permitted development rights


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Practice notes

Agricultural buildings and land: permitted development rights


Produced in partnership with Martha Grekos of Martha Grekos Legal Consultancy Limited

Practice notes
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Pursuant to section 57 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (TCPA 1990), planning permission is required for ‘the carrying out of any development of land’. ‘Development’ is defined in TCPA 1990, s 55(1) as:

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    the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, over or under land (see Practice Note: Operational development), or

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    the making of any material change in the use of any buildings or other land (see Practice Note: Material change of use)

TCPA 1990, s 58(1)(a) provides that planning permission may be granted by a ‘development order’. The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted development) (England) Order 2015 (GPDO 2015), SI 2015/596 is a development order for these purposes. It allows specific types of development, set out in different classes in GPDO 2015, SI 2015/596, Sch 2, to be carried out without the need to obtain planning permission.

GPDO 2015 contains two broad sets of permitted development rights for agricultural buildings and land:

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    in GPDO 2015, SI 2015/596, Sch

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Permitted development definition
What does Permitted development mean?

Permission to carry out certain development without the need to make an application to the local planning authority for planning permission, as permission is granted by development order (SI 2015/596 in England and SI 1995/418 in Wales). Permitted development rights are subject to strict exceptions, limitations and conditions.

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