PART 3PLANNING PERMISSION

CHAPTER 9EFFECT, DURATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PLANNING PERMISSION

Interpretation

99Time when development starts

(1)

For the purposes of this Chapter, development is to be taken to start—

(a)

in the case of development consisting of mining operations, when the mining operations first start to be carried out;

(b)

in any other case, when either of the following first occurs—

(i)

a relevant operation forming part of the development starts to be carried out, or

(ii)

a relevant change in use forming part of the development is made.

(2)

“Relevant operation” means—

(a)

any work of construction in the course of erecting a building;

(b)

any work of demolition of a building;

(c)

digging a trench that is to contain foundations for a building;

(d)

laying an underground main or pipe to the foundations of a building, or to a trench that is to contain foundations for a building;

(e)

any operation in the course of laying out or constructing a road.

(3)

“Relevant change in use” means any material change in the use of land that constitutes development other than—

(a)

development for which planning permission is granted by a general development order or a local development order and which is carried out to comply with a condition or limitation subject to which the permission is granted, and

(b)

development of a description specified in regulations.

(4)

“General development order” means a development order made in relation to all land in Wales (subject to any exceptions specified in the order).