The Town and Country Planning General Development Order 1988

• Development likely to affect land in Greater London or in a metropolitan county

• Development likely to affect land in a non-metropolitan county, other than land in a National Park

• Development likely to affect land in a National Park

• Development involving the manufacture, processing, keeping or use of a hazardous substance in such circumstances that there will at any one time be, or is likely to be, a notifiable quantity of such substance in, on, over or under any land

• Development likely to result in a material increase in the volume or a material change in the character of traffic—

(i)entering or leaving a trunk road; or

(ii)using a level crossing over a railway

• Development likely to result in a material increase in the volume or a material change in the character of traffic entering or leaving a classified or proposed road

• Development likely to prejudice the improvement or construction of a classified or proposed road

• Development involving the formation, laying out or alteration of any means of access to a highway (other than a trunk road)

• Development which involves the provision of a building or pipeline in an area of coal working notified by the British Coal Corporation to the local planning authority

• Development involving or including mining operations

• Development involving or including the winning and working of coal by opencast methods

• Development within three kilometres of Windsor Castle, Windsor Great Park, or Windsor Home Park, or within 800 metres of any other royal palace or park, which might affect the amenities (including security) of that palace or park

• Development of land in Greater London involving the demolition, in whole or part, or the material alteration of a listed building

• Development likely to affect the site of a scheduled ancient monument

• Development involving the carrying out of works or operations in the bed of or on the banks of a river or stream

• Development for the purpose of refining or storing mineral oils and their derivatives

• Development involving the use of land for the deposit of refuse or waste

• Development relating to the retention, treatment or disposal of sewage, trade-waste, slurry or sludge (other than the laying of sewers, the construction of pumphouses in a line of sewers, the construction of septic tanks and cesspools serving single dwelling-houses or single caravans or single buildings in which not more than ten people will normally reside, work or congregate, and works ancillary thereto)

• Development relating to the use of land as a cemetery

• Development in an area of special scientific interest of which notification has been given or has effect as if given to the local planning authority by the Nature Conservancy Council in accordance with section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981(1)

• Development involving any land on which there is a theatre as defined in the Theatres Trust Act 1976(2)

• Development which is not for agricultural purposes and is not in accordance with the provisions of a development plan and involves—

  (i)

  the loss of not less than 20 hectares of grades 1, 2 or 3a agricultural land which is for the time being used (or was last used) for agricultural purposes; or

  (ii)

  the loss of less than 20 hectares of grades 1, 2 or 3a agricultural land which is for the time being used (or was last used) for agricultural purposes, in circumstances in which the development is likely to lead to a further loss of agricultural land amounting cumulatively to 20 hectares or more

• Development within 250 metres of land which—

  (i)

  is or has, at any time in the 30 years before the relevant application, been used for the deposit of refuse or waste; and

  (ii)

  has been notified to the local planning authority by the waste disposal authority for the purposes of this provision