The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1950 (SI 1950/1131) is a statutory instrument, applying in England and Wales.

Background The concept of statutory use classes was introduced by the Town and Country Planning Act 1947. So they could be easily updated from time to time, the classes were set out in secondary legislation. The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1948 was the first such order. The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1950 revoked and replaced it.

The purpose of the use classes, at least initially, was to determine if planning permission was necessary and if a development charge was payable. The development charge was a tax on the value of the betterment of the land. Development charges were withdrawn on 18 November 1952.

Provisions The 1950 order reduced the number of use classes from twenty-two to eighteen, to make possible more changes of use within a class, eliminating the need to pay a development charge.

Amendments It was amended by the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Amendment) Order 1960 and the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Amendment No. 2) Order 1960.

It was replaced by the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1963.

Use classes There were eighteen use classes from 1950, reduced from twenty-two in 1948. Class Description I Shop for any purpose except as: II Office, including a bank, but not a post office III Light industrial IV General industrial V Alkali, &c. Works Regulation Act 1906 registerable activity, except ancillary processesAny of the following that are not registerable: Special industrial group A VI Any of the following (that are not in Class V): Special industrial group B VII Any of the following (that are not in Class V): Special industrial group C VIII Any of the following (that are not in Class V):The distilling, refining or blending of oils, the production or employment of cellulose lacquers (except their employment in garages in connection with minor repairs), hot pitch or bitumen, or pyridine; the stoving of enamelled ware; the production of amyl acetate, aromatic esters, butyric acid, caramel, hexamine, iodoform, B-naphthol, resin products (except synthetic resins, plastic moulding or extrusion. compositions and plastic sheets, rods, tubes, filaments, fibres or optical components produced by casting, calendering, moulding, shaping or extrusion), salicylic acid, or sulphonated organic com- pounds; paint and varnish manufacture (excluding mixing, milling and grinding); the production of rubber from scrap; or the manufacture of acetylene from calcium carbide, for sale or for use in a further chemical process Special industrial group D IX Any of the following (that are not in Class V): Special industrial group E X Wholesale warehouse for any purpose XI Boarding or guest house, a residential club, or a hotel providing sleeping accommodation XII Residential or boarding school or a residential college XIII Building for public worship or religious instruction or for the social or recreational activities of the religious body using the building. XIV Home or institution providing for the boarding, care and maintenance of children, old people or persons under disability, a convalescent home, a nursing home, a sanatorium or a hospital (other than a hospital, home, hostel or institution included in Class XVI) XV Health centre, school treatment centre, clinic, creche, day nursery or dispensary, or use as consulting room or surgery (not residentially) XVI Hospital, home or institution for persons of unsound mind, mental defectives, or epileptic persons, or a home, hostel or institution in which persons may be detained by order of a court or which is approved by one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for persons required to reside there as a condition of a probation or a supervision order XVII Art gallery (other than for business purposes), a museum, a public library or reading room, a public hall, a concert hall, an exhibition hall, a social centre, a community centre or a non-residential club XVIII Theatre, a cinema, a music hall, a dance hall, a skating rink, a swimming bath, a Turkish or other vapour or foam bath or a gymnasium, or for indoor games.

See also Planning use classes in England Planning use classes in Wales

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