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

Class A – railway or light railway undertakingsE+W

Permitted developmentE+W

A.   Development by railway undertakers on their operational land, required in connection with the movement of traffic by rail.

Development not permittedE+W

A.1  Development is not permitted by Class A if it consists of or includes—

(a)the construction of a railway;

(b)the construction or erection of a hotel, railway station or bridge; or

(c)the construction or erection otherwise than wholly within a railway station of—

(i)an office, residential or educational building, or a building used for an industrial process, or

(ii)a car park, shop, restaurant, garage, petrol filling station or other building or structure provided under transport legislation.

Interpretation of Class AE+W

A.2  For the purposes of Class A, references to the construction or erection of any building or structure include references to the reconstruction or alteration of a building or structure where its design or external appearance would be materially affected.