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Article 4 direction
Article 4 Direction: office to residential (priority employment areas and town centres) 2015
About this entity
| Fact links | ||
|---|---|---|
| CURIE | article-4-direction:A4D-2015-OFFICE-TO-RESIDENTIAL | no fact link |
| Prefix | article-4-direction | Facts about Prefix |
| Reference | A4D-2015-OFFICE-TO-RESIDENTIAL | Facts about Reference |
| Name | Article 4 Direction: office to residential (priority employment areas and town centres) 2015 | Facts about Name |
| Quality | Some: We have some data from an alternative source | no fact link |
| Dataset | Article 4 direction | no fact link |
| Organisation | London Borough of Hackney | no fact link |
| Start date | 2016-09-15 | Facts about Start date |
| End date | 2022-07-31 | Facts about End date |
| Entry date | 2026-09-10 | Facts about Entry date |
| Typology | legal-instrument | no fact link |
| Notes | Made 20 July 2015 (Cabinet decision LHR L12 of 22 June 2015) and confirmed 15 September 2016, when it came into force. End date: Class O was revoked from 1 August 2021 and, under article 15(3) of SI 2021/428, article 4 directions withdrawing Class O continued to apply to the equivalent Class MA development only until 31 July 2022; the direction has had no effect since. Class E to residential change of use in Hackney is now controlled by the 2022 directions (A4D-2022-*). Document URL is the council's Cabinet report with the direction appended; sealed and confirmed direction (Local Plan examination document ED036): https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1-3groi0Tkr86cfJabMw9unzOfjrGPoQz. The direction is no longer described on the council's article 4 page. | Facts about Notes |
| Description | Non-immediate direction withdrawing the Class O permitted development right for change of use from offices (B1(a)) to dwellinghouses (C3) in Hackney's priority employment areas, the Hackney Central and Manor House area action plan areas and the Hackney Central and Stoke Newington district town centres. | Facts about Description |
| Document url | https://hackney.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s43410/LHR%20L12_Cabinet_Report_FINAL.pdf | Facts about Document url |
| Documentation url | https://www.hackney.gov.uk/planning-and-building/planning-policies-and-local-plan/article-4-directions#office-to-residential | Facts about Documentation url |
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"notes": "Made 20 July 2015 (Cabinet decision LHR L12 of 22 June 2015) and confirmed 15 September 2016, when it came into force. End date: Class O was revoked from 1 August 2021 and, under article 15(3) of SI 2021/428, article 4 directions withdrawing Class O continued to apply to the equivalent Class MA development only until 31 July 2022; the direction has had no effect since. Class E to residential change of use in Hackney is now controlled by the 2022 directions (A4D-2022-*). Document URL is the council's Cabinet report with the direction appended; sealed and confirmed direction (Local Plan examination document ED036): https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1-3groi0Tkr86cfJabMw9unzOfjrGPoQz. The direction is no longer described on the council's article 4 page.",
"description": "Non-immediate direction withdrawing the Class O permitted development right for change of use from offices (B1(a)) to dwellinghouses (C3) in Hackney's priority employment areas, the Hackney Central and Manor House area action plan areas and the Hackney Central and Stoke Newington district town centres.",
"document-url": "https://hackney.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s43410/LHR%20L12_Cabinet_Report_FINAL.pdf",
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