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Upper Market Housing:
New build detached houses with five apartments or more (a separate dining room is considered to be an apartment, a dining area within a living room is not).
Urban Capacity Study:
An assessment of the potential capacity for housing and industry within the urban area over the period 2006 to 2020.
Urban Design Strategies:
Give spatial expression to urban design policy, usually across whole towns and cities, and provide a context for more detailed frameworks and briefs.
Urban Design Framework:
Sets out in detail how development plan policies are to be implemented in a particular area where there is a need to control, guide and promote change. In Glasgow, these may form part of the Area Development Strategies proposed for the Areas of Focus identified in the Plan.
Urban Form:
The overall three dimensional form of a settlement and of its streets and spaces.
Urban Grain:
The arrangement and size of the constituent parts of a town (the buildings, plots, blocks, urban spaces and building lines) that together determine the urban texture and the degree to which an area’s pattern of street blocks and junctions is respectively small and frequent, or large and infrequent.
Use Classes:
The following lists the development uses covered by the Town and Country (Use Classes) (Scotland) Order 1997:
Class 1. Shops
Use
(a) for the retail sale of goods other than hot food;
(b) as a post office;
(c) for the sale of tickets;
(d) as a travel agency;
(e) for the sale of cold food for consumption off the premises;
(f) for hairdressing;
(g) for the direction of funerals;
(h) for the display of goods for sale;
(i) for the hiring out of domestic or personal goods or articles;
(j) as a laundrette or dry cleaners; or;
(k) for the reception of goods to be washed, cleaned or repaired;
where the sale, display or service is principally to visiting members of the public.
Class 2. Financial, Professional and Other Services
Use for the provision of
(a) financial services;
(b) professional services; or
(c) any other services (including use as a betting office);
where it is appropriate to provide in a shopping area and where the services are provided principally to visiting members of the public.
Class 3. Food and Drink
Use for the sale of food and drink for consumption on the premises.
Class 4. Business
Use
(a) as an office, other than a use within Class 2 (financial, professional and other services);
(b) for research and development of products or processes; or
(c) for any industrial process;
being a use which can be carried on in any residential area without detriment to the amenity of that area by reason of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, soot, ash, dust or grit.
Class 5. General Industrial
Use for the carrying on of an industrial process other than one falling within Class 4 (business).
Class 6. Storage and Distribution
Use for storage or as a distribution centre.
Class 7. Hotels and Hostels
Use as a hotel, boarding house, guest house, or hostel where no significant element of care is provided, other than premises licensed for the sale of alcoholic liquor to persons other than residents or to persons other than persons consuming meals on the premises and other than a use within class 9 (houses).
Class 8. Residential Institutions
Use
(a) for the provision of residential accommodation and care to people in need of care other than a use within class 9 (houses);
(b) as a hospital or nursing home; or
(c) as a residential school, college or training centre.
Class 9. Houses
Use
(a) as a house, other than a flat, whether or not as a sole or main residence, by:
(i) a single person or by people living together as a family; or
(ii) not more than 5 persons living together including a household where care is provided for residents; and
(b) as a bed and breakfast establishment or guest house, where at any one time not more than 2 bedrooms are, or in the case of premises having less than 4 bedrooms 1 bedroom is, used for that purpose.
Class 10. Non-Residential Institutions
Use, not including residential use
(a) as a creche, day nursery or day centre;
(b) for the provision of education;
(c) for the display of works of art (otherwise than for sale or hire);
(d) as a museum;
(e) as a public library or public reading room;
(f) as a public hall or exhibition hall; or
(g) for, or in connection with, public worship or religious instruction, or the social or recreational activities of a religious body.
Class 11. Assembly and Leisure
Use as a
(a) cinema;
(b) concert hall;
(c) bingo hall or casino;
(d) dance hall or discotheque; or
(e) swimming bath, skating rink, gymnasium or area for other indoor or outdoor sports or recreation, not involving motorised vehicles or firearms.