Use Classes
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Use/ Description of Development
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Permitted Change
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A1
Shops
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Shops, Retail Warehouses, Post
Offices, Ticket and Travel Agents, Hairdressers, Funeral Directors &
Undertakers, Domestic Hire Shops, Dry Cleaners, Sandwich Bars –
Sandwiches or other cold food purchased and consumed off the
premises, Internet Cafés and Cyber Cafés. |
No Permitted Change except to mixed use as a shop
and single flat and vice versa. |
A2
Financial & Professional Services
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Financial Services (Banks, Building
Societies and Bureau de Change), Professional Services (excluding
Health or Medical Services) (Estate Agents and Employment Agencies).
Other Services – Betting Shops. Principally where services are
provided to visiting members of the public. |
A1 (where there is a ground floor display window)
plus as above. |
A3
Restaurants & Cafes
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Restaurants, Snack Bars and Cafés –
Use for the sale of food for consumption on the premises. |
A1 or A2. |
A4
Drinking Establishments
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Use as a Public House, Wine-Bar or
other Drinking Establishment. The primary purpose is the sale and
consumption of alcoholic drink on the premises. |
A1, A2 or A3. |
A5
Hot Food Takeaway
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Use for the sale of hot food for
consumption off the premises. |
A1, A2 or A3. |
B1
Business
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a) Offices rather than in a use
within Class A2 (Financial and Professional Services).
b) Research and Development – Laboratories, Studios.
c) Light Industry.
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B8 (where no more than 235 Sq M). |
B2
General Industrial
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General Industry (Other than
Classified as in B1). The former ‘Special Industrial@ Use Classes,
B3 – B7, are all now encompassed in the B2 Use Class. |
B1 (unlimited) or B8 (where no more than 235 Sq
M). |
B8
Storage or Distribution
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Storage or Distribution Centres. |
B1 (where no more than 235 Sq M). |
C1
Hotels
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Hotels, Boarding Houses & Guest
Houses. Development falls within this class if ‘no significant
element of care is provided’. |
No Permitted Change. |
C2
Residential Institutions
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Hospitals, Nursing Homes,
Residential School and Training Centres. Use for the provision of
residential accommodation and care to people in need of use. |
No Permitted Change. |
C2A
Secure Residential Institutions
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Use for a provision of secure
residential accommodation, including use as a prison, young
offenders institution, detention centre, secure training centre,
custody centre, short term holding centre, secure hospital, secure
local authority accommodation or use as a military barracks. |
No Permitted Change. |
C3
Dwelling houses
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Dwellings for individuals, families
or not more than six people living together as a single household. |
No Permitted Change. |
D1
Non-Residential Institutions
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Medical & Health Services, Crèche,
Day Nursery, Day Centres, Museums, Public Halls, Libraries, Art
Galleries, Exhibition Halls, Non-residential Education and Training
Centres, Places of Worship, Church Halls, Law Courts. |
No Permitted Change. |
D2
Assembly & Leisure
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Cinemas, Concert Halls, Sports
Halls, Swimming Baths, Skating Rinks, Gymnasiums, Bingo Hall. Other
Indoor and Outdoor Sports and Leisure Uses, not involving motorized
vehicles or firearms. |
No Permitted Change. |
Sui Generis
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There are many use classes that are
not specifically categorised by the four main use classes. These
uses are classified as sui generic. For example: Petrol Stations,
Retail Warehouse Clubs, Amusement Arcades, Launderettes, Taxi or
Vehicle Hire Business & the Selling and Displaying of Motor
Vehicles, Nightclubs, Theatres, Hostels, Builders Yards, Scrap
Yards, Casinos. |
No Permitted Change (except Casinos: permitted
change from Sui Generis to D2) |
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