24. Lapse of planning permission

Terms defined in s 2

• building operation

  building operation

  Defined · s 2

  “building operation” means the demolition, erection, re-erection, or extension of a building or part thereof and includes— (a) any increasing of the height or floor area of a building; (b) the roofing or re-roofing of a building or part thereof; (c) any addition to or alteration of a building that affects or is likely to affect its drainage or sanitary arrangements or its soundness; (d) any addition to or alteration of a building, whether done before or after completion of the building, that departs in any manner from any plan or specification in respect of the building approved at any time by any authority empowered under any written law to approve the plan or specification; (e) any addition to or alteration of a building that materially affects or is likely to materially affect the building in any manner; and (f) any other operation normally undertaken by a person carrying on the business of building construction;

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• development

  development

  Defined · s 2

  “development” means the carrying out of any building, engineering, mining, industrial, or other similar operation in, on, over, or under land, the making of any material change in the use of any land or building or any part thereof, or the subdivision or amalgamation of lands; and

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• local planning authority

  local planning authority

  Defined · s 2

  “local planning authority”, in relation to an area, shall be construed as provided in section 5 and, in relation to any land or building, means the local planning authority, as so construed, for the area in which the land or building is situated;

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• planning permission

  planning permission

  Defined · s 2

  “planning permission” means permission granted, with or without condition, to carry out development;

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