Understanding Planning Legislation: Types of Development benefiting from Permitted Development Rights

The types of development now benefiting from permitted development rights in Northern Ireland can be broadly summarised as:

• those relating to certain types of building, including dwellinghouses, industrial and warehouse buildings, agricultural buildings and those within amusements parks; these rights mostly relate to fairly minor development incidental to existing uses of the land and with any adverse effects controlled by various conditions;
• those given to certain types of organisations which carry out development, including district councils, various statutory undertakers, for example railways, electricity, ports, water authorities, and airports; these rights may have been given on the basis of the public services provided by these bodies and the statutory controls and accountability that apply to them;
• rights that tie in with and provide limited expansion of development rights provided by other legislation, such as repairs to services and unadopted roads and development required by the Roads Service for road safety