Where development which requires planning permission has taken place, but this permission has not been obtained or the conditions of the permission have not been complied with.
Demolition of buildings, rebuilding, structural alterations of, or additions to buildings, and other operations normally undertaken by a builder.
Enables Local Planning Authorities, when the appropriate conditions are satisfied in each case, to grant a certificate stating that:
Areas of special architectural or historic interest.
The carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, over or under land, or the making of any material change in the use of any buildings or other land.
Expediency is a test of whether the development is causing serious harm. This test has regard to the development plan policies and other material considerations. Just because a breach may exist does not automatically mean that formal action will be taken.
A national government document which sets out various categories of development that do not require planning permission (e.g. many alterations and extensions to dwellings).
A building, monument, site, place, area or landscape identified as having a degree of significance meriting consideration in planning decisions because of its heritage interest. A heritage asset includes designated heritage assets and assets identified by the local planning authority (including local listing).
In this context Lawful means that the development or use of land specified is immune from compliance action and/or a specific grant of planning permission is not required.
A matter that is relevant to making a planning decision.
Generally, relates to the use of land in the public interest, rather than the protection of purely private interests.
Some, usually small scale, development that does not need to obtain planning permission, by virtue of being exempted in the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 or being granted by a Local Development Order.
This is the primary piece of planning legislation and includes sections on Control over Development and Development Plans. Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 2010 - Lists certain changes of use which do not usually require planning permission (e.g. change of use from a restaurant to a shop or from light industrial to offices).