Article 4 direction documentation

An Article 4 direction, removes or restricts permitted development rights within an area of acknowledged importance.  Permitted development rights are described in the The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015

The removed/restricted permitted development rights are detailed in a Schedule, as part of a Notice, which then becomes enforceable once confirmed after a period of consultation. 

A planning application has to be submitted for a site in the area when development includes removed or restricted permitted development rights.

For Article 4 directions where New Forest District Council is the Local Planning Authority, including planning guidance, please see:

• Permitted development rights for householders - New Forest District Council 
• Permitted development rights for businesses - New Forest District Council

We have received government funding to improve our planning digital data through the MHCLG Digital Planning Improvement fund: Round 2.

Article 4 datasets were enhanced as part of the award funding, these are available from this webpage, and can be explored in the map of planning data for England: Map of planning data for England | Planning Data.

Licence

This dataset has been published by New Forest District Council under the Open Government Licence  Open Government Licence (nationalarchives.gov.uk). This licence has been applied following the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement 'presumption to publish' process.

Acknowledgements

Please acknowledge the Information Provider with this attribution statement: © New Forest District Council, 2024, OGL v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right, 2024.

Datasets

Two datasets are available:

ART4/66/00002:  ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION 97/5, Land in the Avon Valley Christchurch

ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION 97/5 was made on 2 September 1966 and confirmed 3 November 1966, under Article 4 of the Town and County Planning General development order, 1963. 

Hampshire County Council was the planning authority for the Direction.

Directing that permission granted by Article 3 of the said order shall not apply to development specified in Classes IV(2), VI(1) and XXII.

For detailed information please see the Direction pdf, which includes a boundary map.

ART4/66/00001: ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION 97/3,  Land situated at Bransgore House, Bransgore

This Article 4 direction area straddles the boundary with the New Forest National Park Authority.

ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION 97/3 was made on 14 February 1966 and confirmed 20 April 1967, under Article 4 of the Town and County Planning General development order, 1963. 

Hampshire County Council was the planning authority for the Direction.

Directing that permission granted by Article 3 of the said order shall not apply to development specified in Classes II(1), VI(1) and XXII (means of enclosure, temporary use and siting of caravans).

For detailed information please see the Direction pdf, which includes a boundary map.

ART4/71/00001: ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION 97/6, Land at Furzedown Farm, Frost Lane, Hythe

ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION  was made on 15 March 1971 and confirmed 27 May 1971, under Article 4 of the Town and County Planning General development order, 1963.

The Rural District Council of New Forest was the planning authority for the Direction.

Directing that permission granted by Article 3 of the said order shall not apply to development specified in Class VI(1) (building or engineering operations requisite for the use of that land for the purposes of agriculture)

For detailed information please see the Direction pdf, which includes a boundary map.

ART4/72/00001: ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION 97/1, Coast along the Solent and Southampton Water

This Article 4 direction area straddles the boundary with the New Forest National Park Authority.

ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION  was made on 19 November 1971, confirmed on 6 December 1972 and registered on 10 January 1973, under Article 4 of the Town and County Planning General development order, 1963.

Hampshire County Council was the planning authority for the Direction.

Directing that permission granted by Article 3 of the said order shall not apply to development specified in Class IV (restricting the use of hovercraft within approximately one mile of the coast and estuaries taking in Southampton Water, and land within approximately one mile of any point on the Beaulieu and Lymington Rivers up to and including the respective townships).

For detailed information please see the Direction pdf, which includes a boundary map.

ART4/82/00001: ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION 97/2, Land in Avon Valley

 This Article 4 direction area straddles the boundary with the New Forest National Park Authority.

ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION was made on 19 August 1982 and provisionally identified as confirmed 17 November 1982 (we do not have access to a document source that provides evidence of the confirmation date), under Article 4 of the Town and County Planning General development order, 1977.

New Forest District Council was the planning authority for the Direction.

Directing that permission granted by Article 3 of the said order shall not apply to development specified in Class IV ( the carrying out on the said land of works for the excavation and construction of fish farms or agricultural reservoirs on land in the Avon Valley, Hampshire)

For detailed information please see the Direction pdf, which includes a boundary map.

ART4/12/00002: ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION NP 12/002,  Rockford Farm, Rockford Road, Ellingham Harbridge & Ibsley

NFDC is shown as the responsible organisation only for very small areas (visible when using large scale mapping) that overlap the boundary with NFNPA, due to GIS digitisation issues out of our control.

Please contact the NFNPA planning team for any queries: planning@newforestnpa.gov.uk.

ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION was made on 21 February 2012 and confirmed on 21 August 2012 by the New Forest National Park Authority.

For detailed information please see the link to the official notice.

ART4/12/00003: ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION NP 12/002#2, Rockford Farm, Rockford Road, Ellingham Harbridge & Ibsley

NFDC is shown as the responsible organisation only for very small areas (visible when using large scale mapping) that overlap the boundary with NFNPA, due to GIS digitisation issues out of our control.

Please contact the NFNPA planning team for any queries: planning@newforestnpa.gov.uk.

ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION was made on 21 February 2012 and confirmed on 21 August 2012 by the New Forest National Park Authority.

For detailed information please see the link to the official notice.

ART4/15/00001: ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION MARL/PUDDLE,  Land adjoining  Marl and Puddleslosh Lanes (Comprising approximately 26 hectares), north of Fordingbridge

ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION was made on 27 October 2014 and confirmed with an amendment on 13 April 2015, under article 4(1) of the Town and Country Planning (General
Permitted Development) Order 1995 ( as amended).

New Forest District Council was the planning authority for the Direction.

The Direction withdraws permitted development rights as follows:  the erection, construction, improvement or alteration of a gate, fence, wall or other means of enclosure being development comprised within Class A of Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the Order and not being development comprised within any other class.

For detailed information please see the Direction pdf, which includes a boundary map.

ART4/22/00001: ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION NP NEW FOREST CAMPSITE, New Forest National Park

 NFDC is shown as the responsible organisation only for very small areas (visible when using large scale mapping) that overlap the boundary with NFNPA, due to GIS digitisation issues out of our control.

Please contact the NFNPA planning team for any queries: planning@newforestnpa.gov.uk.

ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION was made on 20 September 2021,  came into force on 30 September 2023 and confirmed on 08 April 2022 by the New Forest National Park Authority.

 Note in July 2023 further permitted development was introduced that nullified this directive, leading to the ART4/23/00001 direction.

ART4/23/00001: ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION NP NEW FOREST RECREATIONAL CAMPSITE, New Forest National Park

NFDC is shown as the responsible organisation only for very small areas (visible when using large scale mapping) that overlap the boundary with NFNPA, due to GIS digitisation issues out of our control.

Please contact the NFNPA planning team for any queries: planning@newforestnpa.gov.uk.

ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION was made on 17 October 2023,  came into force on 27 October 2023 and confirmed on 12 December 2024 by the New Forest National Park Authority.

For detailed information please see the Direction pdf, which includes a boundary map.