The Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

1.—(1) In Part 1 of this Schedule— N.I.

“agricultural” has the same meaning as in section 43(1) of the Agriculture Act (Northern Ireland) 1949(1);

“business premises” means any building or part of a building normally used for the purpose of any professional, commercial or industrial undertaking or for the purpose of providing services to members of the public or of any association, and includes a public restaurant, licensed premises and a place of public entertainment, but not—

(a)

unless it was normally used immediately before 1st October 1973 for any such purpose or has been adapted for use for any such purpose by the construction of a shop front or the making of a material alteration to its external appearance, a building designed for use as one or more separate dwellings;

(b)

a building used as an institution of a religious, educational, cultural, recreational or medical character;

(c)

any forecourt or other land forming part of the curtilage of a building;

(d)

any fence, wall or similar screen or structure, unless it forms part of the fabric of a building;

“existing directional advertisement” does not include any advertisement displayed without express or deemed consent;

“forecourt” includes any fence, wall or similar screen or structure enclosing a forecourt and not forming part of the fabric of a building constituting business premises;

“ground level”, in relation to the display of advertisements on any building, means the ground floor level of that building;

“joined boards” means boards joined at an angle, so that only 1 surface of each is suitable for advertising;

“public transport undertaking” means a non-statutory undertaking engaged in the carriage of passengers;

“retail park” means a group of 3 or more retail stores, at least 1 of which has a minimum internal floor area of 1,000 square metres and which—

(a)

are set apart from existing shopping centres but within an existing or proposed urban area;

(b)

share 1 or more communal car parks.

(2) Where a maximum area is specified in relation to any class in this Schedule, in the case of a double-sided board, the area of 1 side only shall be taken into account.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 3 para. 1 in operation at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1

(1)

1949 c.2 (N.I.)