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I. For the purposes of Part 1—
“highway” includes an unadopted street or a private way;
“raised” in relation to a platform means a platform with a height greater than 0.3 metres; and
“terrace house” [F1except in Class AA (enlargement of a dwellinghouse by construction of additional storeys),] means a dwellinghouse situated in a row of 3 or more dwellinghouses used or designed for use as single dwellings, where—
it shares a party wall with, or has a main wall adjoining the main wall of, the dwellinghouse on either side; or
if it is at the end of a row, it shares a party wall with or has a main wall adjoining the main wall of a dwellinghouse which fulfils the requirements of paragraph (a); and
“unadopted street” means a street not being a highway maintainable at the public expense within the meaning of the Highways Act 1980 M1.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. I inserted (31.8.2020 at 9.00 a.m.) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/755), arts. 1, 3(4)
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M11980 c. 66. See in particular sections 36, 328 and 329; section 36 was amended by Schedule 4 to the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), Schedule 2 to the Housing (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985 (c. 71), Schedule 2 to the Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11), section 64 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Transport and Works Act 1992 (c. 42), Schedule 6 to the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37) and S.I. 2006/1177. There are amendments to section 329 but none are relevant to this Order.
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