This Order amends the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/764) (“the principal Order”). The principal Order specifies classes for the purposes of section 55(2)(f) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8), which provides that a change of use of a building or other land does not involve development for the purposes of the Act if the new use and the former use are both within the same specified class. This Order amends the principal Order by providing that use as a betting office and use as a pay day loan shop are in included in article 3(6) of the principal Order: the list of uses excluded from the specified classes.

Article 3 makes transitional provision in relation to premises which at the date of coming into force of this Order are in the process of converting to a betting office or a pay day loan shop the effect of which is to treat such premises as if they remained within Class A2 (financial and professional services) of the Schedule to the principal Order. The transitional provisions cease to have effect 3 years after this Order comes into force.

A copy of the Financial Conduct Authority’s Handbook, which is referred to in the definition of “high-cost short-term credit” in article 3(4A) of the principal Order (inserted by this Order), may be inspected at the Financial Conduct Authority, 25 The North Colonnade, London, E14 5HS or viewed online at: http://www.fshandbook.info/FS/html/FCA

An impact assessment has been prepared in relation to the Order and is published with the Explanatory Memorandum alongside this instrument at www.legislation.gov.uk or a copy may be inspected at the Planning Directorate, the Department for Communities and Local Government, Fry Building, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF.