The Town and Country Planning Use Classes Orders 1950

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The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order, 1950

Coming into Operation - 21st July, 1950

The Minister of Town andCountry Planning in exercise of the powers con-
ferred on him by Section 12 of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947(a),
and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the
following Order:—

(а) the making of any article or of part of any article, or
(b) the altering, repairing, Vornamenti-ng, finishing, cleaning, washing,
packing or canning, or adapting for sale, or breaking up or demoli-
tion of any article, or
“ industrial building ” means a building (other than a building in or
adjacent to and belonging to a quarry or mine and other than a shop) used
for the carrying on of any process for or incidental to any of the following
purposes, namely;—
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(a) 10 & 11 Geo. 6. с. 51.
(b) S.I. 1948 (No. 954) I, p. 4226.
(с) 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.
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1950.
Interpretation
“ the Act ” means the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947 ;
“ shop ” means a building used for the carrying on of any retail trade
or retail business wherein the primary purpose is the selling of goods by
retail, and includes a building used for the purposes of a hairdresser,
undertaker or ticket agency or for the reception of goods to be washed,
cleaned or repaired, or for any other purposeappropriate to a shopping
area, but does not include a building used as a funfair, garage, petrol
filling station, office, or hotel or premises (other than a restaurant) licensed
for the sale of intoxicating liquors for consumption on'the premises;
“ funfair ” includes an amusement arcade or pin-table saloon ;
“ office ” includes a bank, but does not include a post office ;
L—(l) This Order may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Use
Classes) Order, 1950, and shall come into force on the twenty-first day of July,
Interpretation
of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
Act, 1889(c), shall apply to
the interpretation
2.———'(1) The
(2) In this Order unless the context „otherwise requires, the following ex-
pres-sions have the meanings respectively assigned to them, namely : —-—
The Minister of Town andCountry Planning in exercise of the powers con-
ferred on him by Section 12 of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947(a),
and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the
following Order:—
Citation and Còmmencement, cmd Revocation of previous Order
(2) The Town and Country Planning
hereby revoked.
(Use Classes). Order,
is
1948—(b),
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STATUTORY
INSTRUMENTS
The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order, 1950
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11th
July, 1950
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Coming into Operation
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21st July, 1950
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Class I .-—Use as a shop for any purpose except as :—
(i) a fried fish shop ;
(ii) a tripe shop;
(iii) a shop for the sale of pet animals or birds ;
(iv) a cats-meat shop.
Class II.——-Use as an office for any purpose.
Class III.——-Us-e as a light industrial building for any purpose.
Class I V.—-—-Use as a general industrial building for any purpose.
Class
Regulation Act, 1906(d), as extended by the Alkali, etc. Works Orders, 1928
to
of minerals, carried on in or adjacent to a quarry or mine.
for any
V.———Use
work which is registerable under the Alkali, etc. Works
process ancillary
1950(e), except a
to the getting, dressing or treatment
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(e) S.R. & O. 1928§(No. 26) p. 63; S.R. & O. 1935 (No. 162) p. 129; S.R. & O. 1939
(No. 1299) I, p. 142; and S.I. 1950 No. 364.
(3) A use which is ordinarily incidental to and included in any use speci-
fied in the Schedule to this Order is not excluded from that use as
incident thereto merely by reason of its specification in the said Schedule
as a separate use.
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~(d) 6 Edw. 7. c. 14.
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“ light industrial building ” means an industrial building (not being a
special industrial building) in which the processes carried on or the machin-
ery installed are such as could be carried on or installed in any residential
area without detriment to the amenity of that area by reason of noise,
vibration, sme11,fumes, smoke, soot, ash, dust or grit ;
and references to a building may, except where otherwise provided, include
references to land occupied therewith and used for the same purposes.
SCHEDULE
being a process carried on in the course of trade or business other than
agriculture, and for the purposes of this definition the expressmn “ article ”
means an article of any description, including a ship or vessel ;
“ special industrial building ” means an industrial building used for one
or more of the purposes specified in Classes V, VI, VII, VIII and IX
referred to in the Schedule to this Order ;
Use Classes
(2) Where a group of contiguous or adjacent buildings used as parts of
a single undertaking includes industrial buildings used for purposes falling
within two or more of the classes specified in the Schedule to this Order
as Classes 111 to IX inclusive, those particular two or more classes may,
in relation to that group of buildings, and so long as the area occupied in
that group by either general or special industrial buildings is not substantially
increased thereby, be treated as a single class for the purposes of this Order.
“ general industrial building ” means an industrial building other than a
light industrial building or a special industrial building ;
Where a building or other land is used for a purpose of any class
specified in the Schedule to this Order, the use of such building or other
land for any other purpose of the same class shall not be deemed for the
purposes of the Act to involve development of the land.
3.———(1)
(c) without prejudice to the foregoing paragraphs, the getting, dressing
or treatment of minerals,
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(vi) chromium plating.
The production or employment of
(1) cyanogen or its compounds ;
(ii) liquid or gaseous sulphur dioxide ;
(iii) sulphur chlorides.
Salt glazing.
Sintering of sulphur bearing materials.
Industrial
Group
(Special
C.)
The distilling, refining or blending of oils, the production or employment of
cellulose lacquers (except their employment in garages
minor repairs), hot pitch or bitumen, or pyridine; the stoving of enamelled
ware; the production of amyl acetate, aromatic esters, butyric acid, caramel,
hexamine,
plastic moulding or extrusion compositions and plastic sheets, rods, tubes,
filaments,
moulding, shaping or extrusion), salicylic acid, or 'sulphonated organic
manufacture
in connection with
resins,
synthetic
(except
products
resin
B-naphthol,
iodoform,
casting,
calendering,
com—
and
grinding); the production of rubber from scrap; or the manufacture of acety-
lene from calcium carbide, for sale or for use in a further chemical process.
or optical components produced by
fibres
mixing,
milling
paint
(excluding
pounds;
varnish
and
Industrial Group
D.)
(Special
Class lX.——Use for carrying
trades so far as not included in Class V : --
011 any of the following industries, businesses or
Blood albumen maker.
Blood boiler.
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The manufacture of glass, where the sodium sulphate used exceeds 1.5 per
cent. of the total weight of the melt.
The production of Ultramarine or zinc chloride.
Class VIII.———-Use for any of the following purposes, so far as not included in
Class V :—
Use for any of the following processes, except as aforesaid, so far as not
registerable under the above Act:—
(i) smeìting, calcining, sintering or other reduction of ores or minerals;
forging
hardening or carburising,
(ii) converting,
or easting, of iron or other metals ;
(iii) galvanising ;
re-heating, annealing,
(iv) recovering of metal from scrap ;
(v) pickling or treatment of metal in acid ;
Industrial
Group A.)
(Special
Class VI.——Use for any of the following processes so far as not included in
Class V and except a process ancillary to the getting, dressing or treatment
of minerals, carried on in or adjacent to a quarry or mine:—
(i) burning of building bricks ;
(ii) lime and dolomite burning;
(iii) carbonisation of coal in coke ovens ;
(iv) production of calcium carbide, lampblack or zinc oxide;
(V) crushing or screening of stone or slag.
Group
B.)
(Special Industrial
for any of the following purposes so far as not included
in
Class VII.-——Use
Class V :—
Animal charcoal manufacturer.
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Bone boiler or steamer.
Bone burner.
Bone
Breeder of maggots from putrescible animal matter.
Candle
Catgut manufacturer.
Chitterling or nettlings boiler.
grinder.
maker.
Dealer in rags or bones (including receiving, storing, sorting or manipu-
lating rags in or likely to become in an offensive condition, or any bones,
rabbit-skins, fat or putrescible animal products of a like nature).
Fat melter or fat extractor.
Fellmonger.
Fish curer.
Fish oil manufacturer.
Fish skin dresser or scraper.
Glue maker.
Gut scraper or gut cleaner.
Leather dresser.
Manufacturer of manure from bones, fish, fish offal, blood, spent hops,
beans or other putrescible animal or vegetable matter.
Parchment maker.
Size
Skin drier.
Soap boiler.
Tallow melter or refiner.
Tanner.
Tripe boiler or cleaner.
maker.
Group
(Special
Industrial
E.)
Class X:"Use as a Wholesale warehouse or repository for any purpose.
Class XIII.——-Use as a building for public worship or religious instruction or for
the social or recreational activities of the religious body using the building.
as a home or institution providing for the boarding, care and
maintenance of children, old people or persons under disability, a convalescent
home,
home, hostel or institution included in Class XVI).
Class XIV.————Use
(other
a
hospital,
a nursing home,
a sanatorium or
a hospital
than
Class X V.-——Use (other than residentially) as a health centre, a school treatment
centre, a clinic, a creche, a day nursery or a dispensary, or use as a consulting
room or surgery unattached to the residence of the consultant or practitioner.
Class X VI.--—Use as a hospital, home or institution for persons of unsound mind, mental which persons may be detained by order of a court or which by one of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State for persons required to reside there as a condition of a probation or a supervision order.. hostel or institution in  is approved defectives, or epileptic persons, or home,
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Maker of meal for feeding poultry, dogs, cattle, or other animals from
any fish, blood, bone, fat or animal offal, either in an ofiensive condition
or subjected to any process causing noxious or injurious efl‘luvia.
as
providing sleeping accommodation.
boarding
or guest house,
a
Class XI.—+Use
a
residential club,
or
a
hotel
Class
XII.—-——Use as
a residential or boarding school or a residential college.
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fifty.
Hugh Dalton,
Minister of Town and Country Planning.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Section 12 of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, provides (inter
any material change in the use of any buildings
or other land shall be “ development ” for the purposes of that Act; but
that in the case of buildings or other land which are used for a purpose
of any class specified in an order made under the section, the use thereof
alia) that the making
of:
for any other purpose of the same class shall not be deemed to involve
This Order, which replaces the previous Order for this purpose,
the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order, 1948 (8.1. 1948 No. 954)
amalgamates certain of the Use Classes in that Order and thus permits a Wider
range of changes of use to take place without involving “ development ”.
development.
(This Note is not part of this Order, but is intended to indicate
its general purport.)
Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Town and Country
Planning this eleventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and
Class X Vll.——-Use as an art gallery (other than for business purposes), a mnsenm,
a publicclibrary or reading room, a public hall, a concert hall, an exhibition
hall, a'social’ centre, a community centre or a non-residential club.
Class X VlII.—‚——Use as a theatre, a cinema, a music hall, a dança hall, a skating
vapour or foam bath or a
Turkish
or other
rink,
a swimming bath,
a
gymnasium, or for indoor games.
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INSTRUMENTS
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The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order, 1950
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