BP2

Policy: BP2 - Business Policy 2

Business Policy 2: Land for industrial development should be designated in all parts of the Island, having regard to:

1. scale, which should be appropriate to the area;
2. the availability of public transport links;
3. the proximity of labour; and
4. the availability of water, sewerage and other utilities

9.2.3 Industrial buildings are defined as follows:

"industrial building" means a building (other than a building in or adjacent to or belonging to a quarry or mine and other than a shop) used for the carrying on of any process, for or incidental to any of the following purposes, namely:-

1. the making of any article or of part of any article; or
2. the altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning, washing, packing or canning, or adapting for sale, or breaking up or demolition of any article; or
3. without prejudice to the foregoing paragraphs, the getting, dressing or treatment of minerals;

being a process carried on in the course of trade or business other than agriculture, and for the purposes of this definition the expression "article" means an article of any description, including a ship or vessel.

Such buildings are sub-divided into light industrial, general industrial and special industrial buildings, each defined as follows:

"light industrial building" means an industrial building (not being a special industrial building) in which the processes carried on or the machinery installed are such as could be carried on or installed in any residential area without detriment to the amenity of that area by reason of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, soot, ash, dust or grit, or undue generation of traffic or parking of vehicles; the use of light industrial buildings for research and development of products or processes is permitted by the Town and Country Planning (Permitted Development) Order 2005.

"general industrial building" means an industrial building other than a light industrial building or a special industrial building;

"special industrial building" means an industrial building used for the carrying on of processes (including storage) which may be particularly offensive by reason of noise, smell, vibration, smoke, soot, ash, dust, grit, or fumes, or dangerous by reason of the storage or use of dangerous or inflammable material, or inimical to public health by reason of vermin or other causes.

Many I.T. and e-businesses successfully operate in the new generation of industrial buildings. At the same time many operate successfully in standard office environments or even heritage buildings. In planning terms the principal distinction is between those enterprises that manufacture physical products and require production, packaging and distribution space and those enterprises whose products, as such, do not have the same processing requirement. In most cases the former enterprises can be located in appropriate industrial estates or business parks (1) in a range of different buildings. In the latter, office type accommodation may be now appropriate.

(1) Business Park is defined in Appendix 1