Planning (Use Classes) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made: 2nd November 2004

Coming into operation: 29th November 2004

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Citation and commencement

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Interpretation

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Use classes

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Revocations

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SCHEDULE

PART A — shopping and financial & professional services

Class A1: Shops

Use for all or any of the following purposes –

• (a) for the retail sale of goods other than hot food;

• (b) as a post office;

• (c) for the sale of tickets or as a travel agency;

• (d) for hairdressing;

• (e) for the display of goods for retail sale;

• (f) for the hiring out of domestic or personal goods or articles; or

• (g) for the reception of goods including clothes or fabrics to be washed, cleaned or repaired either on or off the premises

where the sale, display or service is to visiting members of the public.

Class A2: Financial, professional and other services

Use for the provision of services which it is appropriate to provide in a shopping area, where the services are provided principally to visiting members of the public including –

• (a) financial services; or

• (b) professional services.

PART B — industrial and business uses

Class B1: Business

Use –

• (a) as an office other than a use within Class A2 (Financial, professional and other services);

• (b) as a call centre; or

• (c) for research and development which can be carried out without detriment to amenity by reason of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, soot, ash, dust or grit.

Class B2: Light Industrial

Use for any industrial process which can be carried out without detriment to amenity by reason of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, soot, ash, dust or grit.

Class B3: General Industrial

Use for the carrying on of any industrial process other than one falling within Class B2.

Class B4: Storage or distribution

Use for storage or as a distribution centre.

PART C — residential uses

Class C1: Dwellinghouses

Use as a dwellinghouse (whether or not as sole or main residence) –

• (a) by a single person or by people living together as a family; or

• (b) by not more than 6 residents living together as a single household where care is provided for residents.

Class C2: Guest houses

Use as a boarding or guest house or as a hostel where, in each case, no significant element of care is provided.

Class C3: Residential institutions

Use –

• (a) for the provision of residential accommodation and care to people in need of care (other than a use within Class C1 (Dwellinghouses));

• (b) as a hospital or nursing home; or

• (c) as a residential school, college or training centre.

PART D — community, recreation and culture

Class D1: Community and Cultural Uses

Any use (not including a residential use) –

• (a) for the provision of any medical or health services except the use of premises attached to the residence of the consultant or practitioner;

• (b) as a crèche, day nursery, after school facility or day centre;

• (c) as a community centre;

• (d) for the provision of education;

• (e) for the display of works of art (otherwise than for sale or hire);

• (f) as a museum;

• (g) as a public library or reading room; or

• (h) as a public hall or exhibition hall.

Class D2: Assembly and leisure

Use as a –

• (a) bingo hall;

• (b) cinema;

• (c) concert hall;

• (d) dance hall;

• (e) theatre.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 2nd November 2004.

Marianne Fleming — A senior officer of the — Department of the Environment

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1991/1220 (N.I. 11)

[^f00002]: S.I. 1985/1204 (N.I. 11)

[^f00003]: S.I. 1992/3204 (N.I. 20)

[^f00004]: S.I. 1992/1725 (N.I. 15)

[^f00005]: S.I. 2003/412 (N.I. 2)

[^f00006]: S.I. 1997/2777 (N.I. 18)

[^f00007]: S.R. 2003 No. 46

[^f00008]: Council Directive 75/442/EEC, O.J. No. L194,25.7.75, p. 39-41. Council Directive 75/442/EEC was amended by Council Directive 91/156/EEC, O.J. No. L078, 26.3.91, p. 32-37. Council Directive 91/692/EEC, O.J. L377, 31.12.91, p. 48-54 and by Commission Decision 96/350/EC, O.J. L135, 6.06.96, p. 32-34

[^f00009]: S.R.1989 No. 290

[^f00010]: S.R.1993 No. 277

[^f00011]: S.R.1993 No. 462

[^f00012]: S.R.1996 No. 248

[^f00013]: S.R.1993 No. 462

[^f00014]: S.R.1996 No. 248

Editorial notes

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