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[GPDO PART 32]

Planning permission is not required for:-

The erection on the site of any school, college, university or hospital of any building required for use as part of, or for a purpose incidental to the use of, the school, college, university or hospital as such, as the case may be.

Development is not allowed if

• The building is not for the purposes of providing education or any medical or health services.
• The total of any buildings to be erected would exceed 10% of the total floor space of the original school, college, university or hospital building on the site.
• The cumulative total of the cubic content of buildings erected would exceed 250 cubic metres.
• Where any part of the building to be erected is within 20metres of the site boundary.
• Where land used as a playing field is no longer available for that purpose because of the development.

AND

• On article 1(5) land [sensitive sites] any materials used are similar in appearance to the existing buildings.
• The floorspace / cubic content calculations take into account all existing buildings previously erected.

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