Policy information sourced from Royal Greenwich Local Plan Core Strategy
TC(b) Non-retail Uses in Protected Shopping Frontages
The Royal Borough will support the provision of a range of activity generating non retail uses in town centres including evening activities where environmentally appropriate, subject to the ground floor retail thresholds set out in Policy TC(a). Non retail proposals:
- Should directly serve visiting members of the public, generate and not impede pedestrian activity, and keep the shopping frontage active and viable;
- Should include installation and retention of a display window of good design;
- Must not result in the loss of an occupied A1 retail unit where reasonable alternative premises, for the non retail use, are available elsewhere in that centre;
- Will not be permitted if, as a result, breaks between occupied A1 premises exceed two units in primary frontages or three in secondary or local frontages; and
- Will not be permitted if, as a result, either the use class category proposed or the combined total of A3, A4, and A5 uses would occupy more than 25% of all designated frontage premises within that centre or individual block.
- Should not increase the likelihood of anti-social behaviour or increase the fear of crime.
When determining applications for new betting shops within protected retail frontages, consideration will be given to the number of existing betting shops in the centre and the need to avoid over-concentration and saturation of this particular type of use.
For more information please see the Local Plan Core Strategy