(Britain, construction, law) Legal permission granted by a government authority to construct on one's land, or to change the use of the land.
If I am not sure whether what I want to do needs planning permission, how can I find out? You can write to your Local Planning Authority and ask them to give you a ruling (or, as the Act [the Town and Country Planning Act 1947] calls it,…
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