ABSTRACT
Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes)
Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st June 1987.
Interpretation 2 In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires-
‘care’ means personal care for people in need of such care by reason of old age, disablement, past or present dependence on alcohol or drugs or past or present mental disorder, and in class C2 also includes the personal care of children and medical care and treatment;
‘day centre’ means premises which are visited during the day for social or recreational purposes or for the purposes of rehabilitation or occupational training, at which care is also provided;
‘industrial process’ means a process for or incidental to any of the following purposes:
(a) the making of any article or part of any article (including a ship or vessel, or a film, video or sound recording);
(b) the altering, repairing, maintaining, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning, washing, packing, canning, adapting for sale, breaking up or demolition of any article; or
(c) the getting, dressing or treatment of minerals;
in the course of any trade or business other than agriculture, and other than a use carried out in or adjacent to a mine or quarry;
‘Schedule’ means the Schedule to this Order; ‘site’ means the whole area of land within a single unit of occupation.
