An Article Four Direction is made by a Local Planning Authority in the United Kingdom and confirmed by the Government. It serves to restrict Permitted Development rights, which means that certain operations which would normally be carried out without planning permission are brought into the realms of planning consent. It does not in itself prohibit any action but means that a landowner is required to seek planning consent whereas without the Direction this would not be necessary.
An Article Four Direction is not a conservation designation as such. It is a statement made under the Town and Country Planning Acts, specifically the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995. The Direction removes all or some of the Permitted Development rights on a site.
This datasset shows details of all available Article 4 Directions within Cornwall. Corrections and additions are made as and when they come to light but it cannot be guaranteed that this information is complete because some of the orders date back to the 1940s and the majority of the orders were created as paper documents, which may have become damaged or even lost.