Article 4 directions

An Article 4 direction is a direction under article 4 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 which enables local planning authorities to withdraw specific permitted development rights relating to operational development or changes of use across a defined area.

An article 4 direction only means that a particular development cannot be carried out under permitted development and therefore needs a planning application. This gives a local planning authority the opportunity to consider a proposal in more detail. For this reason, a planning application can be submitted to carry out development restricted by the Article 4 direction.

View any of the Article 4 direction locations on an interactive map

• Pipers Lane Heswall
• Heswall and Thurstaston
• Bromborough Village
• 29 Shore Drive, New Ferry
• Tower Stadium, New Brighton
• Bromborough Pool Village
• Land at The Dales, Heswall
• 18 Manor Drive, Upton
• Land adjacent to Hooton Mount Cottage, Eastham Village Road
• Pipers Lane, Heswall
• Caldy and Thurstaston

About the data

This dataset shows the locations of Article 4 areas in operation. 

Data

• Article 4 direction dataset (CSV, 3KB)
• Article 4 direction area dataset (GeoJSON, 122KB)

Licensing

The data is provided under the Open Government Licence.