In the United Kingdom, local development orders (LDOs) were introduced with the

Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was promoted by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. It substantially reforms the town planning and compulsory purchase framework i ...

. They allow

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to extend

permitted development The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (SI 2015/596) (the "GPDO 2015") is a statutory instrument (UK), statutory instrument, applying in England, that grants planning permission for certain types of ...

rights for certain forms of development with regard to a relevant

local development document A local development framework is the spatial planning strategy introduced in England and Wales by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and given detail in Planning Policy Statements 12. In most parts of the two countries, maintaining th ...

Development order

The

Town and Country Planning Act 1990 The Town and Country Planning Act 1990c 8 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom regulating the development of land in England and Wales. It is a central part of English land law in that it concerns town and country planning in the U ...

states that For example, this enabled the General Permitted Development Order 1995, allowing the SoS to set out what is '

References

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