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A1 Shops: Shops, post offices, travel agents, hairdressers, funeral directors, dry cleaners
A2 Financial and professional services: Banks, building societies, betting offices, and other financial and professional services
A3 Restaurants and cafes
A4 Drinking establishments
A5 Hot food takeaways
B1 Business: Offices, research and development, light industry appropriate in a residential area
B2 General industrial
B8 Storage and distribution: Including open air storage
C1 Hotels: Hotels, boarding and guest houses where no significant element of care is provided
C2 Residential Institutions: Residential care homes, hospitals, nursing homes, boarding schools, residential colleges and training centres
C3 Dwelling houses: Family houses, or houses occupied by up to six residents living together as a single household, including a household where care is provided for residents
D1 Non-residential institutions: Surgeries, nurseries, day centres, schools, art galleries, museums, libraries, halls, churches
D2 Assembly and leisure: Cinemas, concert halls, bingo and dance halls, casinos, swimming baths, skating rinks, gymnasiums or sports arenas (except for motor sports, or where firearms are used).
Use classes
The following classes of use are set out in the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 as amended:A1 Shops: Shops, post offices, travel agents, hairdressers, funeral directors, dry cleaners
A2 Financial and professional services: Banks, building societies, betting offices, and other financial and professional services
A3 Restaurants and cafes
A4 Drinking establishments
A5 Hot food takeaways
B1 Business: Offices, research and development, light industry appropriate in a residential area
B2 General industrial
B8 Storage and distribution: Including open air storage
C1 Hotels: Hotels, boarding and guest houses where no significant element of care is provided
C2 Residential Institutions: Residential care homes, hospitals, nursing homes, boarding schools, residential colleges and training centres
C3 Dwelling houses: Family houses, or houses occupied by up to six residents living together as a single household, including a household where care is provided for residents
D1 Non-residential institutions: Surgeries, nurseries, day centres, schools, art galleries, museums, libraries, halls, churches
D2 Assembly and leisure: Cinemas, concert halls, bingo and dance halls, casinos, swimming baths, skating rinks, gymnasiums or sports arenas (except for motor sports, or where firearms are used).