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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2020/437/article/4</dc:identifier><dc:title>The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development and Use Classes) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2020</dc:title><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:subject scheme="SIheading">TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING</dc:subject><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2024-09-19</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2021-04-01</dct:valid>
					<dc:description>This Order amends the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Order 1992 (“the 1992 Order”) to introduce new classes of permitted development rights and makes a minor amendment to the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Scotland) Order 1997.</dc:description>
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the Town and Country Planning (Safeguarded Aerodromes, Technical Sites, Meteorological Technical Sites and Military Explosives Storage Areas) (Scotland) Direction 2016,</Text></P2para></BlockAmendment><AppendText>,</AppendText></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2020/437/article/4/c" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2020/437/article/4/c" id="article-4-c"><Pnumber>c</Pnumber><P3para><Text>after the definition of  “private way” insert—</Text><BlockAmendment TargetClass="unknown" TargetSubClass="unknown" Context="unknown" Format="default"><P2para><Text>“<Term>Regulation 2020/1070 small cell system</Term>” means a small cell system—</Text><P3><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>to which Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1070 on specifying the characteristics of small-area wireless access point pursuant to Article 57 paragraph 2 of Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and Council establishing the European Electronic 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