{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-england-amendment-order-2016/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-england-amendment-order-2016/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/332",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-england-amendment-order-2016",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendments in relation to change of use of launderettes to dwellinghouses",
  "text": "(1) Class M in Part 3 of Schedule 2 is amended as follows.\n(2) For paragraph M of Class M substitute—\n“Class M – retail and specified sui generis uses to dwellinghouses\nPermitted development\nM. Development consisting of—\n(a) a change of use of a building from—\n(i) a use falling within Class A1 (shops) or Class A2 (financial and professional services) of the Schedule to the Use Classes Order,\n(ii) a use as a betting office, pay day loan shop or launderette, or\n(iii) a mixed use combining use as a dwellinghouse with—\n(aa) a use as a betting office, pay day loan shop or launderette, or\n(bb) a use falling within either Class A1 (shops) or Class A2 (financial and professional services) of that Schedule (whether that use was granted permission under Class G of this Part or otherwise),\nto a use falling within Class C3 (dwellinghouses) of that Schedule, and\n(b) building operations reasonably necessary to convert the building referred to in paragraph (a) to a use falling within Class C3 (dwellinghouses) of that Schedule.”.\n(3) For paragraph M.2(1)(d)(i) substitute—\n“(i) on adequate provision of services of the sort that may be provided by a building falling within Class A1 (shops) or Class A2 (financial and professional services) of that Schedule or, as the case may be, a building used as a launderette, but only where there is a reasonable prospect of the building being used to provide such services, or”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/332/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:25:47.949204+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}