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What does Use mean? In legal practice, Use describes any act of dealing with information, materials, works, data or technology. It is usually a contractual umbrella term capturing a broad range of actions, commonly including to distribute, disclose, store, use, analyse, copy, reproduce, extract, modify or adapt, whether in whole or in part. Use is not generally fixed by statute; its scope turns on the wording of the relevant agreement and context. That said, it intersects with specific legal regimes. In intellectual property, “use” of a trade mark in the course of trade (UK Trade Marks Act 1994; Irish Trade Marks Act 1996) and the...

Use Classes Order (England): change of use, 2020 Class E reforms, sui generis, GPDO permitted changes, ancillary and mixed uses, intensification, and restrictions via planning conditions and section 106 obligations

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Material change of use and the use classes order

Any material change in how buildings or other land are used is treated as ‘development’ for the purposes of section 55 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (TCPA 1990). As development requires planning permission, it is always necessary to assess whether a change of use is material and therefore amounts to development. However, TCPA 1990, s 55(2)(f) states that a change of use is not development, and so does not need planning permission, where both the previous and proposed uses sit within the same class specified in an order made under that paragraph. The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (the Use Classes Order), SI 1987/764, is an order made pursuant to TCPA 1990, s 55(2)(f). It places uses of land and buildings into broad categories set out in the schedule to the Use Classes Order, SI 1987/764. Each category is a ‘use class’. The Use Classes Order, SI 1987/764 also sets out a number of uses that are expressly stated not to fall within any of the use classes it contains...

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