Ancillary Retail Uses

7.17 There is a growing demand for retail uses to be attached to existing non-retail businesses, for example petrol filling stations, farms, industrial premises, horticultural centres and craft workshops. The Borough Council accepts the need for businesses to diversify in this way, providing that the sale of such goods remains related and subsidiary to the main activity. Planning permission is not always required for ancillary retail sales but may be necessary, particularly if a new building or extension is proposed.

POLICY TCR6: ANCILLARY RETAIL USES

Proposals for extensions and/or change of use to provide ancillary retail sales facilities attached to petrol filling stations or garages; farms; market gardening and horticultural centres; manufacturers (Classes B1 and B2); craft workshops; and similar establishments will, in addition to the policies and proposals elsewhere in this Plan, be considered against the following criteria:

i) The sale of goods should be small in scale and ancillary to the primary use or activity; and
ii) In the case of manufacturers (Classes B1 and B2) and craft workshops, the sale of goods should relate to products manufactured on site.