The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015

Class E – electrical upstand [F1 etc] for recharging vehicles E+W

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 Class E heading inserted (29.5.2025) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/560), arts. 1(2), 4(2)

Permitted development E+W

E.— [F2 (1)] The installation, alteration or replacement, within an area lawfully used for off-street parking, of an upstand with an electrical outlet mounted on it for recharging electric vehicles.

[F3 (2) The installation, alteration or replacement, at ground level within a non-domestic area lawfully used for off-street parking, of—

(a) equipment necessary for the operation of an upstand the installation of which would be permitted by this Class;

(b) a unit of equipment housing for the storage of equipment necessary for the operation of an upstand the installation of which would be permitted by this Class.]

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 2 Pt. 2 Class E para. E renumbered as Sch. 2 Pt. 2 Class E para. E(1) (29.5.2025) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/560), arts. 1(2), 4(3)(a)

F3 Sch. 2 Pt. 2 Class E para. E(2) inserted (29.5.2025) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/560), arts. 1(2), 4(3)(b)

Development not permitted E+W

E.1— [F4 (1)] Development is not permitted by [F5 paragraph E(1)] if the upstand and the outlet would—

[F6 (a) in relation to an upstand and outlet—

(i) within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse or a block of flats, exceed 1.6 metres in height from the level of the surface used for the parking of vehicles; or

(ii) in any other case, exceed [F7 2.7 metres] in height from the level of the surface used for the parking of vehicles;]

F8 (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c) be within a site designated as a scheduled monument;

(d) be within the curtilage of a listed building; or

(e) result in more than 1 upstand being provided for each parking space.

[F9 (2) Development is not permitted by paragraph E(2)(a) if the equipment would not be contained within equipment housing the installation of which would be permitted by this Class.

(3) Development is not permitted by paragraph E(2)(b) if—

(a) it would result in there being more than 1 unit of equipment housing within a non-domestic area lawfully used for off-street parking;

(b) the unit of equipment housing would—

(i) have a volume exceeding 29 cubic metres;

(ii) exceed 3 metres in height from the level of the surface used for the parking of vehicles;

(iii) be within 5 metres of a highway;

(iv) be within 10 metres of the curtilage of a dwellinghouse or block of flats;

(v) be within a site designated as a scheduled monument;

(vi) be within the curtilage of a listed building.]

Textual Amendments

F4 Sch. 2 Pt. 2 Class E para. E.1 renumbered as Sch. 2 Pt. 2 Class E para. E.1(1) (29.5.2025) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/560), arts. 1(2), 4(4)(a)

F5 Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 Class E para. E.1(1) substituted (29.5.2025) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/560), arts. 1(2), 4(4)(b)(i)

F6 Sch. 2 Pt. 2 Class E para. E.1(a) substituted (25.5.2019) by The Town and Country Planning (Permitted Development, Advertisement and Compensation Amendments) (England) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/907), regs. 1(2), 5(a)

F7 Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 Sch. 2 Pt. 2 Class E para. E.1(1)(a)(ii) substituted (29.5.2025) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/560), arts. 1(2), 4(4)(b)(ii)

F8 Sch. 2 Pt. 2 Sch. 2 Pt. 2 Class E para. E.1(1)(b) omitted (29.5.2025) by virtue of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/560), arts. 1(2), 4(4)(b)(iii)

F9 Sch. 2 Pt. 2 Class E para. E.1(2)(3) inserted (29.5.2025) by The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/560), arts. 1(2), 4(4)(c)

Conditions E+W

E.2  Development is permitted by Class E subject to the conditions that when the development is no longer needed as a charging point for electric vehicles—

(a) the development is removed as soon as reasonably practicable; and

(b) the land on which the development was mounted or into which the development was set is, as soon as reasonably practicable, and so far as reasonably practicable, reinstated to its condition before that development was carried out.

[F10 Interpretation of Class E E+W

E.3.   For the purposes of Class E—

“block of flats” means a building which consists of at least two flats.]

Textual Amendments

F10 Sch. 2 Pt. 2 Class E para. E.3 inserted (25.5.2019) by The Town and Country Planning (Permitted Development, Advertisement and Compensation Amendments) (England) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/907), regs. 1(2), 5(b)