The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends article 2(1) of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Scotland) Order 1992, substitutes an alternative Class 67 (Development by telecommunications code system operators) in Part 20 of Schedule 1 of the 1992 Order and amends Class 68 (Other telecommunications development) in Part 21 of that Schedule.

The main purpose of this Order is to restrict the range of development permitted under classes 67 and 68 of the 1992 Order without express planning permission being granted under the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997.

The main provisions of this Order are that:

(a) no development will be permitted under either Class 67 or Class 68 if it is located in a national scenic area, National Park, conservation area, historic garden or designed landscape, site of special scientific interest, European site, natural heritage area, Category A listed building or its setting, or scheduled ancient monument or its setting, unless the development is carried out in an emergency or comprises not more that 2 small antennas on any part of a dwelling house that does not face onto a road;

(b) all ground based masts, irrespective of height require express planning permission;

(c) the range of development permitted on a building or other structure (other than a ground based mast) is restricted to:

(i) on buildings over 15 metres in height, 8 antennas all of which neither exceed either 2.8 metres in height or 1.3 metres wide nor when measured together with any supporting structure exceed 4 metres in height; or

(ii) on buildings not over 15 metres in height, either 4 antennas all of which neither exceed 0.9 metres in direction nor when measured together with any supporting structure exceed 4 metres in height, or 8 antennas all of which neither exceed 0.5 metres in any direction nor when measured together with any supporting structure exceed 4 metres in height; or

(iii) on a dwelling house, 2 antennas all of which neither exceed 0.5 metres in any direction nor project above the highest part of the roof.

(d) radio equipment housing is only permitted:

(i) if it is situated on the ground, it does not exceed either 90 cubic metres in volume or 3 metres in height; or

(ii) if it is situated on a building, it does not exceed either 30 cubic metres in volume or 3 metres in height.