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					<dc:description>This Order amends, primarily, the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (“the GPDO”). The GPDO provides, for the purposes of section 59 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8), for the granting of permission for certain classes of development without the requirement for a planning application to be made under Part 3 of that Act. The classes of permission, together with their accompanying conditions, limitations and restrictions, are set out in Schedule 2 to the GPDO.</dc:description>
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<ContentsTitle>The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development etc.) (England) (Amendment) Order 2021</ContentsTitle>

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<Number>2021 No. 428</Number>
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<Title>Town And Country Planning, England</Title>
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<Title>The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development etc.) (England) (Amendment) Order 2021</Title>
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<Text>Made</Text>
<DateText>30th March 2021</DateText>
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<Text>Laid before Parliament</Text>
<DateText>31st March 2021</DateText>
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<DateText>21st April 2021</DateText>
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<Text>The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 59, 60, 61, 108(2A), (3C) and (5) and 333(2A) and (7) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990<FootnoteRef Ref="f00001"/>:</Text>
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<Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/8" id="c00002" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="1990" Number="0008">1990 c. 8</Citation>. Amendments have been made to section 59 which are not relevant to this Order. Section 60 was amended by section 4(1) of the Growth and Infrastructure Act <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2013/27" id="c00003" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2013" Number="0027">2013 (c. 27)</Citation> and section 152 of the Housing and Planning Act <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2016/22" id="c00004" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2016" Number="0022">2016 (c. 22)</Citation>; section 108(2A) and (3C) was inserted by section 189 of the Planning Act <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2008/29" id="c00005" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2008" Number="0029">2008 (c. 29)</Citation> and amended by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2012/210" id="c00006" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2012" Number="0210">S.I. 2012/210</Citation> and paragraph 29(5), (6) and (7) of Schedule 12 to the Housing and Planning Act 2016; section 333(2A) was inserted by paragraph 14(2) of Schedule 6 to the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2004/5" id="c00007" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2004" Number="0005">2004 (c. 5)</Citation>. In section 108, “prescribed” means prescribed in regulations made by the Secretary of State.</Text>
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