ODPM sets date for controls on internal mezzanine installations

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) has provisionally set 6 April 2006 as the date for implementation of its control on development involving the installation of internal mezzanine floors for retail use.

The new proposals will mean that operations which have the effect of providing additional gross internal retail floorspace of more than 200 square metres will require planning permission from the local planning authority. At or below the 200-square-metres threshold, internal-only alterations to buildings are still not classed as "development" for the purposes of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and, as at present, would not require planning permission.

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