Certain policies in the plan refer to specific types of
land use as defined in the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 2005.
The following is a summary guide to the Order to aid interpretation of the policies.
Normally, planning permission is not required to change between uses WITHIN
one of the Use Classes.
| Use Classes |
A1 |
Shops:
Retail sale of goods to the public - shops, travel
agents, hairdressers, post offices, hire shops, dry cleaners, sandwich
bars - for sandwiches and cold food purchased and consumed off the premises,
funeral directors and undertakers, and internet cafes.
|
A2 |
Financial and professional services:
Building societies, banks, bureaux de change, estate
agents, employment agencies, and other financial and professional services,
including betting offices (where services are provided to visiting members
of the public)
|
A3 |
Restaurants and Cafes:
Restaurants and cafes - use for the sale of food
for consumption on the premises. Excludes internet cafes (now A1).
|
A4 |
Drinking Establishments:
Use as a public house, wine bar or other drinking
establishment.
|
A5 |
Hot Food Takeaway:
Use for the sale of hot food for consumption off
the premises.
|
B1 |
Business:
-
Office other than in A2 (financial and professional
services)
-
Research and development - laboratories,
studios
-
Light industry
|
B2 |
General industrial:
All industry not falling within Class B1. The former
Special Industrial Use Classes B3-B7 are all now encompassed in B2.
|
B8 |
Storage or distribution:
Storage
or distribution centres - wholesale warehouses, distribution centres and
repositories
|
C1 |
Hotels:
Hotels, boarding houses and guest houses; where,
in each case, no significant element of care is provided.
|
C2 |
Residential institutions:
Hospitals, nursing homes, residential education and
training centres. Use for the provision of residential accommodation and
care to people in need of care.
|
C3 |
Dwelling houses:
Dwellings for individuals, families or not more than
six residents living together as a single household. Not more than six
people living together includes - students or young people sharing a dwelling
and small group homes for disabled or handicapped people living together
in the community.
|
D1 |
Non-residential institutions:
Medical and health services - clinics and health
centres, creches, day nurseries, day centres and consulting rooms (not
attached to the consultants' or doctors' houses), museums, public libraries,
art galleries, exhibition halls, non-residential education and training
centres, places of worship, religious institutions and church halls.
|
D2 |
Assembly and leisure:
Cinemas, dance and concert halls, bingo halls, casinos,
sports halls, swimming baths, skating rinks and gymnasiums. Other indoor
and outdoor sports and leisure uses, not involving motorised vehicles
or firearms.
|
Sui generis:
including any use not falling within a specific class, where planning
permission is required for any change of use. This includes, for example,
retail warehouse clubs, car showrooms and car hire establishments, petrol
filling stations, launderettes, taxi or vehicle hire businesses, amusement
arcades, theatres, hostels, builders' yards and garden centres |
