What are B1 B2 and B8 uses?

What are B1 B2 and B8 uses?

B2 (General Industrial) Use for industrial process other than one falling within class B1 (excluding incineration purposes, chemical treatment or landfill or hazardous waste). B1; B8. B8 (Storage and Distribution) This class includes open air storage.

What use class is B8?

Use Class B8 (Storage or distribution) includes warehousing and open air storage. Use Class B8 can benefit from permitted development opportunities to change use without requiring a full planning application.

Do you need planning permission for sui generis?

Sui generis uses generally cannot be changed to any other use without planning permission. The new list of sui generis uses includes: Pubs, wine bars and other drinking establishments (including those with expanded food provision)

What is B1 property use?

Class B1. being a use which can be carried out in any residential area without detriment to the amenity of that area by reason of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, soot, ash, dust or grit.

Does use class B8 still exist?

The residential (C classes), general industrial (B2) and storage and distribution (B8) use classes remain unchanged, except for a new cross reference in the B2 class to the new Class E ‘commercial’ use class.

What is B2 use class?

B2 Use Class is a specific business use for General Industrial and specifically for uses that do not fall within the B1 use class i.e. for uses that would not generally be allowable within a residential area.

What is B2 commercial use?

Use Class B2 (general industrial) relates to industrial process other than those falling within Use Class B1 (excluding incineration purposes, chemical treatment or landfill or hazardous waste).

What is B1 land use?

What is B2 planning permission?

What can you use sui generis land for?

Prior to the 1 September, 2020 the uses that were defined as Sui Generis are:

  • Theatres.
  • Amusement arcades / centres or funfairs.
  • Launderettes.
  • Fuel stations.
  • Hiring, selling and/or displaying motor vehicles.
  • Taxi Business.
  • Scrap yards, or a yard for the storage/ distribution of minerals and/or the breaking of motor vehicles.

What is B2 planning use?

What does B8 mean in planning?

Class B8 uses are suitable in areas of industrial and commercial activity and are normally appropriate in areas designated for primary and secondary employment.

What is B2 use?

What is B2 property use?

What is B2 land use?

What is the difference between B1 and B2 use?

The previous UCO contained a B1c use for light industry but this has now gone and the new OCO just refers to B1 Any industrial process. B2 now refers to General Industrial – the carrying out of an industrial process other than one falling within class B1.

What is use class B1 now?

Table of changes

Current Use Former Use Class New Use Class
Offices B1(a) Class E Commercial, Business and Service
Research and Development of products and processes B1(b)
Light Industrial appropriate in a residential area B1(c)
General Industrial B2 Class B2 (no change)
  • September 21, 2022