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Schedule 4 OCCUPANCY LOAD FACTORS TO BE APPLIED TO ROOMS AND SPACES WITHOUT FIXED SEATING, OTHER THAN IN BUILDINGS OF PURPOSE GROUP 1

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)(2)
Description of room or spaceOccupancy load factor

NOTES

  1. 1.

    For the purpose of this Schedule shops are classified thus–

    • Class 1 – shops other than those listed below as Class 2, including supermarkets and department stores (all sales areas), shops for personal services such as hairdressing and shops for the delivery or uplift of goods for cleaning, repair or other treatment or for members of the public themselves carrying out such cleaning, repair or other treatment.

    • Class 2 – shops trading predominantly in furniture, floor coverings, cycles, perambulators, large domestic appliances or other bulky goods, or trading on a wholesale self-selection basis.

  2. 2.

    The descriptions arcade, hall, gallery and room used in this Schedule do not indicate a particular design or configuration of building.

Standing spectators' area0.3
Amusement arcade, assembly hall (including a general-purpose place of assembly), bar (public area), bingo hall0.5
Concourse, dance hall or floor, queuing area0.7
Committee room, common room, conference room, dining room, licensed betting office (public area), lounge (other than a lounge bar), meeting room, reading room, restaurant, staff room, waiting room1.0
Exhibition hall1.5
Shop sales area (Class 1)2.0
Art gallery, dormitory, factory production area, museum, office (room not exceeding 60 square metres in area), workshop5.0
Kitchen, library, office (room exceeding 60 square metres in area), shop sales area (Class 2)7.0
Bedroom or study bedroom8.0
Bed-sitting room, billiards room10.0
Car park, storage and warehouse accommodation30.0