Guidance for warehouse planners
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LOCAL AUTHORITY staffs involved with planning applications have been reminded of practical problems in giving approval for various types of warehouses. The difficulties arise over the vagueness of the term warehouse and the many uses to which such premises have been put in recent years, eg "cash and carry", "retail" or "discount".
The Department of the Environment, in a Development Control Policy Note (No. 14) outline the many considerations which must be considered before planning permission is granted. It
stresses the d if. between warehousE purely for storage p and those where tlpurpose is the sale of the general public wholesale or sp customers.
Applicants si planning permission and carry premises asked to define the storage to selling sp. number of check-out and parking fat available. Where p are to be used for two purposes, eg storage rooms, sales, et planning authoritie limit the amount o which may be devote of these purposes.