Permitted development right

Development for industrial purposes

Field	Value
Reference	VIII1-1963	Facts
Prefix	permitted-development-right	Facts
Name	Development for industrial purposes	Facts
Dataset	Permitted development right
Organisation	Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
Start date	1973-03-01
End date
Entry date	2025-10-20	Facts
Typology	category
Dataset name		Facts
Notes	None	Facts
Description	Development of the following descriptions, carried out by an industrial undertaker on land used (otherwise than (i) in contravention of previous planning control or (ii) without planning permission granted or deemed to be granted under Part III of the Act) for the carrying out of any industrial process, and for the purposes of such process, or on land used (otherwise than as aforesaid) as dock, harbour or quay for the purposes of an industrial undertaking :-— (i) the provision, rearrangement or replacement of private ways or private railways, sidings or conveyors; (ii) the provisionor rearrangement of sewers, mains, pipes, cables or other apparatus; (iii) the installation or erection, by way of addition or replacement, of plant or machinery, or structures or erections of the nature of plant or machinery, not exceeding 50 feet in height or the height ofthe plant, machinery, Structure or erection so replaced, whichever is the greater; (iv) the extension or alteration of buildings (whether erected before or after Ist July 1948) so long as the height of the original building is not exceeded and the cubic content of the original building (as ascertained by external measurement) is not exceeded by more than one tenth nor the aggregate floorspace thereof by more than 5,000 square feet: Provided that the erection on land within the curtilage of any such building of an additional building to be used in connection with the original building shall be treated as an extension of the original building, and where any two or more original buildings comprised in the same curtilage are used as one unit for the purposes of the undertaking, the reference in this permission to the cubic content shall be construed as reference to the aggregate cubic content of those buildings, and the reference to the aggregate floor space as reference to the total floor space of those buildings.	Facts
Documentation url	https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1963/709/pdfs/uksi_19630709_en.pdf	Facts
Permitted development right part	VIII	Facts
Permitted development right class	1	Facts

Contents

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    "name": "Development for industrial purposes",
    "dataset": "permitted-development-right",
    "organisation-entity": "600001",
    "start-date": "1973-03-01",
    "end-date": "",
    "entry-date": "2025-10-20",
    "typology": "category",
    "geometry": "",
    "point": "",
    "entity": 11500209,
    "dataset-name": "",
    "notes": "None",
    "description": "Development of the following descriptions, carried out by an industrial undertaker on land used (otherwise than (i) in contravention of previous planning control or (ii) without planning permission granted or deemed to be granted under Part III of the Act) for the carrying out of any industrial process, and for the purposes of such process, or on land used (otherwise than as aforesaid) as dock, harbour or quay for the purposes of an industrial undertaking :-\u2014 (i) the provision, rearrangement or replacement of private ways or private railways, sidings or conveyors; (ii) the provisionor rearrangement of sewers, mains, pipes, cables or other apparatus; (iii) the installation or erection, by way of addition or replacement, of plant or machinery, or structures or erections of the nature of plant or machinery, not exceeding 50 feet in height or the height ofthe plant, machinery, Structure or erection so replaced, whichever is the greater; (iv) the extension or alteration of buildings (whether erected before or after Ist July 1948) so long as the height of the original building is not exceeded and the cubic content of the original building (as ascertained by external measurement) is not exceeded by more than one tenth nor the aggregate floorspace thereof by more than 5,000 square feet: Provided that the erection on land within the curtilage of any such building of an additional building to be used in connection with the original building shall be treated as an extension of the original building, and where any two or more original buildings comprised in the same curtilage are used as one unit for the purposes of the undertaking, the reference in this permission to the cubic content shall be construed as reference to the aggregate cubic content of those buildings, and the reference to the aggregate floor space as reference to the total floor space of those buildings.",
    "documentation-url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1963/709/pdfs/uksi_19630709_en.pdf",
    "permitted-development-right-part": "VIII",
    "permitted-development-right-class": "1"
}

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