Appendix 7: Summary of Use Classes
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This Appendix lists the Use Classes, which were defined by the to wn
and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987. Reference should be made
to the to wn and Country Planning Act 1990 and the General Development
Order 1988 for the detailed application of the law.
Use Class |
Description |
Permitted Changes |
A1 |
Shops (including retail warehouses and stores,
dry cleaners, travel agents, hairdressers, post offices, sandwich
bars) |
Changes within Class A1 only |
A2 |
Financial and Professional services (ie. banks,
building societies, estate agents, professional offices) |
Change within Class A2 or to A1 |
A3 |
Food and Drink (including restaurants, pubs, cafes,
hot food takeaways, snack bars) |
Change within A3 or Class A1 and A2 |
Sui Generis |
Motor car showrooms, launderettes, vehicle hire
businesses, petrol filling stations |
None |
B1 |
Offices and light industry (including research
and development) – defined as suitable within a residential
area |
Change within Class B1 and (if below 235 sq.m.)
to Class B8 |
B2 |
General industry |
Change within B2 or to B1 and B8 |
B8 |
Storage and distribution (wholesale, distribution
and storage repositories) |
Change within Class or to B1 |
Sui Generis |
Special premises registerable under certain legislation |
None |
C1 |
Hotels, boarding houses and guest houses |
Changes within Class C1 only |
C2 |
Residential institutions (nursing homes, residential
schools and colleges, hospitals) |
Changes within Class 2 only |
C3 |
Dwelling houses (including small businesses run
by the resident, communal housing where individuals share meals) |
Changes within Class C3 only |
Sui Generis |
Hostels |
None |
D1 |
Non-residential institutions (including places
of worship, health centres, day nurseries, museums, libraries,
art galleries, public halls, education and training centres (non-residential) |
Changes within Class D1 only |
D2 |
Assembly and leisure (including cinemas, concert
halls, sports halls, gymnasiums, indoor sports and leisure uses,
bingo halls, casinos, night clubs) |
Changes within Class D2 only |
Sui Generis |
Theatres |
None |
Notes
Development involving a change of use to a use which is Sui
Generis (literally "a class in itself") will always require
planning permission.
The to wn and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Amendment) (England)
Order 2005, taking into effect after adoption of this Local Plan, inroduces
some important changes to the Use Classes, namely:
• to add internet cafés to the A1 use class;
• to subdivide the previous use class A3 into three new
separate Use Classes: A3 – Restaurants and Bars; A4 –
Drinking Establishments and A5 – Hot Food Takeaways;
• to redefine retail warehouse clubs, night clubs and hostels
as Sui Generis uses.
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