Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Town and Country Planning (General Development) (Scotland) Order 1981 in two ways.
It amends definitions in the 1981 Order in order to meet changes made to the classes of use in the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Scotland) Order 1989 from the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Scotland) Order 1973 which the 1989 Order replaces.
Secondly it substitutes a new Class III in Schedule 1 to the 1981 Order. Class III grants planning permission for certain changes of use of buildings or land by reference to classes of use specified in the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Scotland) Order 1973. The 1973 Order having now been replaced by the 1989 Order, the new class III in Schedule 1 to the 1981 Order grants new permissions by reference to the classes of use specified in the Schedule to the 1989 Order.
The permissions granted allow changes of use as follows:—
from premises used for financial, professional and other services or for the sale of food and drink (class 2 or 3 respectively in the Schedule to the 1989 Order) or for the sale or display of motor cars, to use as a shop (class 1 in that Schedule);
from use for the sale of food and drink to use for the provision of financial, professional and other services;
from general industrial use or use for storage and distribution (class 5 or 11 respectively in the Schedule to the 1989 Order), to a business use (class 4 in that Schedule); and
from business or general industrial use to use for storage and distribution subject to a condition that no more than 235 square metres of the total floorspace in the building or land will be used for storage and distribution.
These are wider permissions than were previously granted by the 1981 Order.