Permitted development right

Development by statutory undertakers

Field	Value
CURIE	permitted-development-right:XVIII(C)-1977
Prefix	permitted-development-right	Facts
Reference	XVIII(C)-1977	Facts
Name	Development by statutory undertakers	Facts
Quality	Some: We have some data from an alternative source
Dataset	Permitted development right
Organisation	Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
Start date	1977-03-29	Facts
End date		Facts
Entry date	2026-06-10	Facts
Typology	category
Notes	None	Facts
Description	Water or hydraulic power undertakings. Development required for the purposes of the undertakings of any of the following descriptions, that is to say:- (i) the laying underground of mains, pipes, or other apparatus; (ii) the improvement, maintenance or repair of watercourses or land drainage works; (iii) the maintenance or repair of works for measuring the flow in any watercourse or channel or the improvement of any such works (otherwise than by the erection or installation, by way of addition or replacement, of any structures of the nature of buildings or of any plant or machinery); (iv) the installation in a water distribution system of booster stations, meter or switch gear houses, not exceeding(except where constructed underground elsewhere then under a highway) 29 cubic metres in capacity; (v) the erection, construction or placing of buildings, plant or apparatus on land, or the carrying out of engineering operations, in, on, over or under land, for the purpose of surveys or investigations. (vi) any other development carried out in, on, over or under the operational land of the undertaking except:- (a) the erection, or the reconstruction or alteration so as materially to affect the design or external appearance thereof, of buildings; (b) the installation or erection, by way of addition or replacement, of any plant or machinery, exceeding 15 metres in height or the height of the plant, machinery, structure or erection so replaced, whichever is the greater.	Facts
Documentation url	https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/289/contents/made	Facts
Permitted development right part	(C)	Facts
Permitted development right class	XVIII	Facts

Contents

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        "end-date": "",
        "entity": 11500232,
        "name": "Development by statutory undertakers",
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        "typology": "category",
        "reference": "XVIII(C)-1977",
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        "organisation-entity": "600001",
        "geometry": "",
        "point": "",
        "quality": "some",
        "notes": "None",
        "description": "Water or hydraulic power undertakings. Development required for the purposes of the undertakings of any of the following descriptions, that is to say:- (i) the laying underground of mains, pipes, or other apparatus; (ii) the improvement, maintenance or repair of watercourses or land drainage works; (iii) the maintenance or repair of works for measuring the flow in any watercourse or channel or the improvement of any such works (otherwise than by the erection or installation, by way of addition or replacement, of any structures of the nature of buildings or of any plant or machinery); (iv) the installation in a water distribution system of booster stations, meter or switch gear houses, not exceeding(except where constructed underground elsewhere then under a highway) 29 cubic metres in capacity; (v) the erection, construction or placing of buildings, plant or apparatus on land, or the carrying out of engineering operations, in, on, over or under land, for the purpose of surveys or investigations. (vi) any other development carried out in, on, over or under the operational land of the undertaking except:- (a) the erection, or the reconstruction or alteration so as materially to affect the design or external appearance thereof, of buildings; (b) the installation or erection, by way of addition or replacement, of any plant or machinery, exceeding 15 metres in height or the height of the plant, machinery, structure or erection so replaced, whichever is the greater.",
        "documentation-url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/289/contents/made",
        "permitted-development-right-part": "(C)",
        "permitted-development-right-class": "XVIII"
    }

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