The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 No. 596

SCHEDULE 2 E+W Permitted development rights

PART 4 E+W Temporary buildings and uses

Class D – shops, financial, cafes, takeaways, pubs etc to temporary flexible use E+W

Conditions E+W

D.2  Development is permitted by Class D subject to the following conditions—

(a) the developer must notify the local planning authority of the date the site will begin to be used for one of the flexible uses, and what that use will be, before the use begins;

(b) at any given time during the 2 year period referred to in Class D the site is used for a purpose or purposes falling within just one of the use classes comprising the flexible use;

(c) the site may at any time during the 2 year period change use to a use falling within one of the other use classes comprising the flexible use, subject to further notification as provided in paragraph (a);

(d) for the purposes of the Use Classes Order and this Order, during the period of flexible use the site retains the use class it had before changing to any of the flexible uses under Class D;

(e) the site reverts to its previous lawful use at the end of the period of flexible use;

(f) in the case of a building which is not a community asset, which is used for a purpose falling within Class A4 (drinking establishments) of the Schedule to the Use Classes Order, the conditions set out in paragraphs C.2(f)(i) to (iii) apply.