SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE

SCHEDULE 3
CLASSIFICATION OF BUILDINGS BY PURPOSE

(2)
Purpose sub-group,
where applicable

(3)
Description of purpose or form of building

1 Dwellings*

1A

Flats and maisonettes

1B

Houses containing a habitable storey at a height exceeding 4.5 metres

1C

Houses not containing a habitable storey at a height exceeding 4.5 metres

2 Institutional and other residential

2A

Residential accommodation, other than dwellings, for old people or children or for the treatment, care or maintenance of persons suffering from illness or mental or physical disability or handicap

2B

Any other building, other than a dwelling, containing sleeping accommodation

3 Offices

Offices or premises used for office, administrative or clerical purposes (including writing, book-keeping, sorting papers, filing, typing, duplicating, machine calculating, police and fire service work, drawing and the editorial preparation of work for publication), financial transactions (including banking and building society work) and communications (including postal, telegraph and radio, television, film, audio or video recording or performance (not open to the public), communication or control)

4 Shops and Commercial

Shops or premises used for retail or wholesale trade or business,
including sales by auction, self-selection and over-the-counter wholesale
trading, hairdressing and beauty or body care and premises to which members of the public are invited to resort for the purpose of delivering or uplifting goods in connection with their cleaning, repair, hire or other treatment or (except in the case of the repair of motor vehicles) of themselves carrying out such cleaning, repair or other treatment.

5 Assembly and recreational

5A

Places of entertainment and recreation other than sports stadia, including bingo halls, broadcasting, recording and film studios open to the public, casinos, dance halls, entertainment, conference, exhibition and
leisure centres (except where consisting predominantly of a swimming pool), funfairs and amusement arcades, licensed betting offices, museums and art galleries, non-residential clubs, public houses, restaurants, cafes, snack bars,theatres, cinemas and concert halls

5B

Any other places of assembly, including swimming pool buildings, churches and other places of worship, crematoria, dancing schools, educational establishments, gymnasia, law courts, libraries open to the public, non-residential day centres, clinics, health centres and surgeries, passenger stations and termini for air, rail, road or sea travel, public toilets, riding schools, ice rinks, sports pavilions, sports stadia, zoos and menageries

(1)
Purpose group and descriptive
title

(2)
Purpose sub-group,
whereapplicable

(3)
Description of purpose or form of building

6 Industrial

6A

Manufacturing, processing, repairing, cleaning, washing, breaking up or otherwise treating any substance comprising or used in association with -
adhesives
asphalt and bituminous products
chemical and allied industries
cleaners and solvents
clothing and footwear (excluding laundering)
coal and petroleum products
cork products
dry cleaning
dye-stuffs and pigments
fertilisers
grains and cereals
inks
insulated wires and cables
leather, sheepskin and fur
linoleum
magnetic tape
oils and greases
paints
paper, printing and publishing (excluding paper manufacturing)
pharmaceutical products
photographic materials and products
plastics
polishes
rubber and synthetic rubber
soaps and detergents
spirit distilling
surgical bandages and plasters
synthetic resins
textiles
timber, joinery, furniture, brushes and brooms
toilet preparations
upholstery
weedkillers and pesticides

6B

Any other industrial building including buildings used for generating or supplying power or slaughtering livestock

7 Storage and warehousing**

7A

Storage of hazardous goods or materials, and storage of vehicles containing hazardous goods or materials, including -
i. any compressed, liquefied or dissolved gas;
ii. any substance which becomes dangerous by interaction with either water or air;
iii. any liquid substance with a flash point below 65° Celsius including whisky or other spirituous liquor;
iv. any corrosive substance
v. any substance capable of emitting poisonous fumes;
vi. any oxidising agent;
vii. any substance liable to spontaneous combustion;
viii. any substance that changes or decomposes readily giving out heat when doing so;
ix. any combustible solid substance with a flash point less than 120° Celsius;
x. any substance likely to spread fire by flowing from one part of a building to another

7B

Storage of any other goods or materials, and car parks and parking garages not coming within purpose sub-group 7A or 7C

7C

Open-sided***car parks and parking garages, designed to admit or accommodate only passenger or light goods vehicles not exceeding 2500 kilograms gross mass