SCHEDULE 7 - METHOD FOR APPLYING CHANGES OF USE OF SHOPS POLICY
   
1. General Principles
1.1 The Council will adopt the following procedure to calculate the percentage of change to the retail frontage and the relative proportions of frontage in retail and in non-retail use. Only premises within the parades identified in this schedule and shown on the Proposals Map as either Primary, Secondary (Metropolitan or District Centre) or Designated (Local Centre) frontage will be included in the calculation. Premises will be categorised according to their authorised use.
1.2 The retail frontage for each parade or centre will be made up from all those uses that fall within Class A1 of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (U.C.O.).
1.3 The non-retail frontage will be made up of the following uses:
  a) Premises in Use Class A2 of the U.C.O.;
  b) Premises in Use Class A3 of the U.C.O.;
  c) Premises in Sui Generis use which form part of the identified shopping frontage including for example launderettes, taxi offices, car showrooms, amusement centres, driving school offices and premises for the hire of motor vehicles; and
  d) B1 offices that occupy premises that form a continuous part of the identified shopping frontage.
1.4 Premises within use classes not identified in 1.2 or 1.3 will be excluded from calculation, i.e they will be treated as neither retail nor non-retail frontage. These include libraries, public halls, petrol filling stations, community buildings and purpose built offices.
1.5 Alleyways, gaps in the frontage and access ways to rear premises of first floors are excluded from the calculation.
1.6 Vacant premises will be included in the calculation according to their authorised use. Premises with valid unimplemented planning permission for non-retail use will count as non-retail.
1.7 Where planning consent is granted for a change of use of any premises for non-retail use subject to the completion of a legal agreement, the premises will be classified as non-retail for the purpose of the calculation within the period specified for completion of that agreement.
1.8 Public houses will be included in the calculation of non-retail frontage only if they form part of a continuous shopping frontage.
1.9 When new frontage is created through new build or redevelopment it will be added to the schedule listed in part 4 below and incorporated into the calculation of the retail/non-retail frontage.
   
2. Methodology for measuring
2.1 The measurement for each shopfront is that distance across the front of the premises facing onto an identified street frontage. If the frontage is irregular in shape then it is broken down into measurable sections.
2.2 Pilasters between shops in parades are divided equally between the adjoining premises.
2.3 Return frontages will only be included where:-
  a) the return is onto a street frontage included in the identified shopping frontage (see part 4 below); or
  b) the return includes a display window, shop doorway or service till and clearly forms a part of the shopping area.
   
3. Formula for calculation
  The percentage for non-retail frontage of a centre can be calculated as follows:-
  100/Total Frontage x Total Non-Retail Frontage
   
  EACH SHOPFRONT HAS BEEN MEASURED BY OFFICERS OF THE COUNCIL. THE CLASSIFICATION OF PREMISES, DETAILS OF INDIVIDUAL FRONTAGE LENGTHS AND THE CURRENT PERCENTAGE OF NON-RETAIL FRONTAGE IN THE METROPOLITAN, DISTRICT AND LOCAL CENTRES IS AVAILABLE FROM THE COUNCIL UPON REQUEST.
   
4. Primary, Secondary and Designated Frontages.
 
HARROW METROPOLITAN CENTRE
Primary frontages Secondary frontages
269-339 Station Road 203-267 Station Road
314-326 Station Road 1-8 Central Parade
1-59 St. Anns Road 341-385 Station Road
2-86 St.Anns Road 140-190 Station Road
Kiosks, St. Anns Road 276-312 Station Road
St. Anns Centre Internal Malls 328-380 Station Road
(Ground Floor) 2-36 College Road
St. Georges Centre Internal Malls 17-51 College Road
(Ground Floor) 63-77 College Road
   
DISTRICT CENTRES
BURNT OAK  
Primary frontages Secondary frontages
53-127 Burnt Oak Broadway 129-195 Burnt Oak Broadway
   
EDGWARE  
Primary frontages Secondary frontages
None 1-19 Whitchurch Lane
  1-11 Lanson House, Whitchurch Lane
  81-103 High Street
  1-4 Handel Parade
   
KINGSBURY  
Primary frontages Secondary frontages
None 704-740 Kenton Road "Iceland", Honeypot Lane
   
NORTH HARROW  
Primary frontages Secondary frontages
1-9 Broadway Parade 73-87 Station Road
17-22 Broadwalk 60-70 Station Road
33-49 Station Road 34-56 Station Road
51-69 Station Road 435 Pinner Road
352-378 Pinner Road 340-348 Pinner Road
  13-15 Broadwalk, Pinner Road
  23-28 Broadwalk, Pinner Road
  493-539 Pinner Road
   
PINNER  
Primary frontages Secondary frontages
2-52 High Street 6-12 Love Lane
1-39 High Street 1-2 Chapel Lane
Barters Walk 36-60 Bridge Street
Bishops Walk 69-95 Bridge Street
2-12 Bridge Street 100-120 Marsh Road
18-34 Bridge Street 185-211 Marsh Road
9-67 Bridge Street 1-5 Station Approach
1-9 Red Lion Parade  
1-19 Love Lane  
2-4 Love Lane  
   
RAYNERS LANE  
Primary frontages Secondary frontages
411-475 Alexandra Avenue 399-409 Alexandra Avenue
297-357 Rayners Lane 420-472 Alexandra Avenue
320-376 Rayners Lane 378-426 Rayners Lane
  377-433 Rayners Lane
  2-26 Village Way East
  1-21 Village Way East
   
SOUTH HARROW  
Primary frontages Secondary frontages
218-330 Northolt Road
(excluding 230b,c,d )
273-347 Northolt Road
223-233 Northolt Road  
235-271 Northolt Road  
   
STANMORE  
Primary frontages Secondary frontages
14-82 The Broadway 1-12 Buckingham Parade
Sainsbury, The Broadway 1-11 Stanmore Hill
  29-55 The Broadway
  1-11 The Broadway
  2-36 Church Road
  1-33 Church Road
   
WEALDSTONE  
Primary frontages Secondary frontages
19-71 High Street 1-13 Masons Avenue
The Sam Maguire P.H. 1-17B High Street
26-66 High Street 1-15B Headstone Drive
The Case is Altered P.H. Post-Office - 30 Headstone Drive
  2-22 High Street
  73-87A High Street
  1-2 Church Parade
  86-112 High Street
  2-14 Canning Road
   
LOCAL CENTRES  
BELMONT  
Designated frontage  
Belmont Hotel (P.H.)  
15-27 Belmont Circle  
404-412 Kenton Lane.  
498-508 Kenton Lane  
397-405 Kenton Lane  
3-9 Warwick Parade  
1-5 Station Parade  
   
HARROW WEALD  
Designated frontage  
323-461 High Road  
330-338 High Road  
350-352 High Road  
364 High Road (Homebase)  
2-10 Weald Lane  
   
HATCH END  
Designated frontage  
246-420 Uxbridge Road  
381-389 Uxbridge Road  
407-521 Uxbridge Road  
   
KENTON  
Designated frontage  
136-204 Kenton Road  
   
QUEENSBURY  
Designated frontage  
246-272 Streatfield Road  
179-219 Streatfield Road  
3-11 Queensbury Circle Parade  
381-451 Honeypot Lane  
   
SUDBURY HILL  
Designated frontage  
137-169 Greenford Road  
142-172 Greenford Road  
   
 
   
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