Planning for garden centres

Scott, M.

Planning for garden centres - 1987 - Estates Gazette 283(6346) 8 August 1987, 628-629(2) .

Garden centres are currently enjoying a boom and trends point to their continuing success. This article analyses the planning needs of garden centres, highlighting the problems in gaining planning permission as they are not defined under the Use Classes Order . Other statutory controls causing problems are those relating to building byelaw approval for glasshouses and the failure of the liberalisation of Sunday opening.


PLANNING CONTROL