Property Use Classes Guide

Use	Use Class up to 31 August 2020	Use Class from 1 September 2020
Shop not more than 280 sq m mostly selling essential goods, including food and at least 1km from another similar shop	A1	F.2
Shop	A1	E
Financial and professional services (not medical)	A2	E
Café or restaurant	A3	E
Pub or drinking establishment	A4	SUI GENERIS
Take away	A5	SUI GENERIS
Office other than a use within Class A2	B1a	E
Research and development of products or processes	B1b	E
For any industrial process (which can be carried out in any residential area without causing detriment to the amenity of the area)	B1c	E
Industrial	B2	B2
Storage or distribution	B8	B8
Hotels, boarding and guest houses	C1	C1
Residential institutions	C2	C2
Secure residential institutions	C2a	C2a
Dwelling houses	C3	C3
Use of a dwelling house by 3-6 residents as a ‘house in multiple occupation’	C4	C4
Clinics, health centres, crèches, day nurseries, day centre	D1	E
Schools, non-residential education and training centres, museums, public libraries, public halls, exhibition halls, places of worship, law courts	D1	F.1
Cinemas, concert halls, bingo halls and dance halls	D2	SUI GENERIS
Gymnasiums, indoor recreations not involving motorised vehicles or firearms	D2	E
Hall or meeting place for the principal use of the local community	D2	F.2
Indoor or outdoor swimming baths, skating rinks, and outdoor sports or recreations not involving motorised vehicles or firearms	D2	F.2

Changes of use within the same class are not development. Use classes prior to 1 September 2020 will remain relevant for certain change of use permitted development rights, until 31 July 2021.

The new use classes comprise:

Class E (Commercial, business and service uses)
Class F.1 (Learning and non-residential institutions)
Class F.2 (Local community uses)
Sui generis (In use class of its own)

Property Use Classes Guide

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Property Use Classes Guide