EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Order 1992 (“the 1992 Order”). Article 3 inserts a new Part 25C and permitted development right into Schedule 1 of the 1992 Order. This will allow local authorities and certain health service bodies to carry out development for the purposes of—

a

preventing an emergency,

b

reducing, controlling or mitigating the effects of an emergency, or

c

taking other action in connection with an emergency.

For these purposes, an emergency is an event or situation which threatens serious damage to human welfare in a place in the United Kingdom.

The development permitted is subject to conditions which are also set out in the new Part 25C.