Interpretation in this Part

In this Part, “building” means any building, erection, structure or any other building erected on or made on, in or under any lands, and where the context so permits, includes the land on, in or under which the building is situate; “building operations” includes any road works, preliminary or incidental to the erection of buildings; “development”, in relation to any land, includes any building or re- building operations and any use of the land or any buildings thereon for a purpose which is different from the purpose for which the land or building was last being used; “existing building” means a building erected or constructed before the material date; “fence” includes any hoarding or paling used as such, and also banks and walls; 44 “hedge” includes any tree or shrub forming a part of a hedge; “land” includes land covered with water and also includes incorporeal as well as corporeal hereditaments of every tenure or description, and any interest therein, and also an undivided share of land; “material date” means, in relation to any provision contained in a scheme, other than a supplementary scheme or varying scheme, the date on which the resolution to prepare or adopt a scheme took effect, or such later date as may be fixed by the scheme, either generally or for the purposes of any particular provision thereof, and in relation to any provision contained in a supplementary scheme or a varying scheme, means the date on which such scheme or order came into operation, or such later date as may be fixed by the scheme or order, either generally or for the purposes of a particular provision thereof, Provided that where any provision of a scheme or order is revoked by a subsequent scheme or order which contains the same provision substantially to the same effect, the material date in relation to that later provision shall be the date which, if the earlier provision had continued in operation, would have been the material date in relation thereto; “minerals” includes all minerals and substances in or under land of a kind ordinarily worked for removal by underground or surface working; “site”, in relation to a building, includes the area of any offices, outbuildings, yard, court or garden occupied or intended to be occupied therewith.