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Commerical Development
Just like homeowners, business also benifit from not
requiring planning permission for certain types of works. This page
looks at what works can be undertaken to a commerical property
without the need to make a planning application.
Even more so than houses, commerical properties vary in scale to
a much larger degree. A small high street butcher, is in planning
terms the same "Use Class" as a hypermarket.
Etending or altering an
industrial building or
warehouse is considered to be permitted
development, subject to the following:
- No development to come within 5m of any boundary
- Development must be within an existing unit (known as the
"Curtilage" in planning)
- No extension or alteration to make building higher than 5m, if
within 10m of the boundary. In all other cases any extension or
alteration must not be higher than the building being extended or
altered*
- The extension or alteration must not exceed the gross floor
space of the original building by more than 25% or 1,000 square
metres, whichever is lesser ("Original" in Planning means as
it was in 1947)
- Development would reduce space available for parking or
turning
- No development within a listed building
- Any industrial building extended or altered must relate to the
current use of the building, staff uses or for research
and development of products or processes
- Any warehouse extended or altered must relate to the current
use of the building or the provision of staff facilities
- No extended or altered building to provide staff facilities:
- Between 7pm and 6.30am, for employees other than those present
at the premises of the undertaking for the purposes of their
employment
- At all, if a notifiable quantity of
hazardous substances* is present
With thanks to the
Planning Portal.
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