Planning - Business

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A1 Shops

• shops, post offices, travel and ticket agencies, sandwich shops
• hairdressers, funeral directors, domestic hire shops, dry cleaners, internet cafes

A2 Financial and professional services

• professional and financial services (other than health or medical services), betting shops
• banks, building societies, estate and employment agencies

A3 Restaurants and Cafes

• Sale of food and drink for consumption on the premises

A4 Drinking Establishments

• Public houses, wine bars or other drinking establishments

A5 Hot Food Takeaways

• Sale of hot food for consumption off the premises

Sui Generis

Retail warehouse clubs, shops selling and/or displaying motor vehicles, launderettes, taxi or vehicle hire businesses, amusement centres, petrol filling stations.

B1 Business

• Offices not within A2
• Research and development, studios, laboratories, high tech
• light industry

B2 General industrial

B8 Storage and distribution

• wholesale warehouse, distribution centres, repositories

Sui Generis

Any work registrable under the Alkali, etc. Works Regulation Act, 1906

C1 Hotels

• hotels, boarding and guest houses

C2 Residential institutions

• residential schools and colleges
• hospitals and convalescent/nursing homes

C3 Dwellinghouses

• dwellings, small businesses at home, communal housing of elderly and handicapped

Sui Generis

Hostel

D1 Non-residential institutions

• places of worship, church halls
• clinics, health centres, creches, day nurseries, consulting rooms
• museums, public halls, libraries, art galleries, exhibition halls
• non-residential education and training centres

D2 Assembly and leisure

• cinemas, music and concert halls
• dance, sports halls, swimming baths, skating rinks, gymnasiums
• other indoor and outdoor sports and leisure uses, bingo halls, casinos

Sui Generis

Theatres