We have received government funding to improve our planning digital data through the MHCLG Digital Planning Improvement fund: Round 2.
Article 4 datasets were enhanced as part of the award funding. These are available from this webpage, and can be explored in the map of planning data for England: Map of planning data for England | Planning Data.
An Article 4 Direction removes or restricts national Permitted Development Rights within a specific site or area. This can range from an individual part of a settlement to the local planning authority’s whole area and there are examples of both in the New Forest National Park.
National Permitted Development Rights are described in The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) and local planning authorities can remove or restrict them to ensure there is planning control over something that would not normally required permission. It is important to emphasise that the Article 4 Direction goes not prevent development from happening, it simply means planning permission is required.
The removed/restricted Permitted Development Rights are detailed in a Schedule, as part of a Notice, which then becomes enforceable once confirmed by the local planning authority after a period of consultation. A planning application has to be submitted for a site in the area when development includes removed or restricted permitted development rights.
Further details on the national Permitted Development Rights that apply within the New Forest National Park are available at Do I need planning permission? – New Forest National Park
Licence
This dataset has been published by New Forest National Park Authority under the Open Government Licence Open Government Licence (nationalarchives.gov.uk). This licence has been applied following the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement ‘presumption to publish’ process.
Datasets
Two datasets are available:
| Article 4 Data: A spatial dataset with polygons for each area | Article 4 area dataset CSV |
| Article 4 Area document: A list of the sources for each Article 4 area | NFNPA Article 4 documents dataset CSV |