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GPDO Article 8 – revocations and saving
Article 8 is the closing Article of the English 2015 GPDO. It revoked the earlier instruments listed in Schedule 4 so far as they applied to England and contained a short transitional saving for specified development.
Article 8 is mainly historical today. Its practical job in 2015 was to clear away the earlier General Permitted Development instruments which the new English Order replaced, while protecting a narrow category of development during the transition.
The detailed list of instruments revoked by Article 8 is in Schedule 4.
The 2015 GPDO replaced the earlier English regime
Article 8(1) revoked the statutory instruments listed in Schedule 4 insofar as they applied to England.
That wording is important. The 2015 GPDO was an England-only consolidation. It did not replace the Welsh GPDO, which continued on the 1995 framework and has since been amended separately.
If you are dealing with land in Wales, use the separate Welsh GPDO section.
The saving provision was temporary
Article 8(2) preserved the 1995 GPDO, in its pre-amendment form, for a limited category of development identified through article 6(2) of the 2015 Amending Order.
Article 8(3) then put an express three-year limit on that saving. That transitional period expired in April 2018.
So paragraphs (2) to (4) are still useful when researching historic development, but they are not a present-day route for starting new development under the old 1995 English GPDO.
Why keep Article 8 on Planning Geek?
Planning decisions often depend on what law applied on a particular date. Article 8 helps explain the handover from the 1995 GPDO to the current English Order and why older certificates, permissions and appeal decisions may refer to a different Part or Class numbering system.
For current permitted development rights, start with the English GPDO index. For the old instruments revoked in 2015, see Schedule 4.
Article 8 legislation
Revocations and saving
8.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the statutory instruments specified in Schedule 4 are revoked insofar as they apply to England.
(2) For the purposes only of development specified in article 6(2) of the Amending Order, the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995, in the form in which it existed immediately before the coming into force of the Amending Order, continues to apply in relation to that development.
(3) The saving provision in paragraph (2) ceases to have effect at the end of the 3 year period beginning with the day on which this Order comes into force.
(4) In this article, “the Amending Order” means the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (England) Order 2015.
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Other GPDO Articles
The Articles are the framework for the General Permitted Development Order in England. Use the links below to move between the Articles or return to the main permitted development section.
Legal check: 6th September 2026