Regulation 9

SCHEDULE 2Exempt Buildings and Work

CLASS 1

Buildings controlled under other legislation

1.  Any building in which explosives are manufactured or stored under a licence granted under the Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005(1).

2.  Any building (other than a building containing a dwelling or a building used for office or canteen accommodation) erected on a site in respect of which a licence under the Nuclear Installations Act 1965(2) is for the time being in force.

3.  A building included in the schedule of monuments maintained under section 1 of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979(3).

CLASS 2

Buildings not frequented by people

1.  Subject to paragraph 2, a detached building—

(a)into which people do not normally go; or

(b)into which people go only intermittently and then only for the purpose of inspecting or maintaining fixed plant or machinery.

2.  The description of buildings in paragraph 1 does not include a building where any point of the building is less than one and a half times its height from—

(a)any point of a building into which people can or do normally go; or

(b)the nearest point of the boundary of the curtilage of that building,

whichever is the nearer.

CLASS 3

Greenhouses and agricultural buildings

1.  Subject to paragraph 3, a greenhouse.

2.  A building used, subject to paragraph 3, for agriculture, or a building principally for the keeping of animals, provided in each case that—

(a)no part of the building is used as a dwelling;

(b)no point of the building is less than one and a half times its height from any point of a building which contains sleeping accommodation; and

(c)the building is provided with a fire exit which is not more than 30 metres from any point in the building.

3.  The descriptions of buildings in paragraphs 1 and 2 do not include a greenhouse or a building used for agriculture if the principal purpose for which they are used is retailing, packing or exhibiting.

4.  In paragraph 2, “agriculture” includes horticulture, fruit growing, the growing of plants for seed and fish farming.

CLASS 4

Temporary buildings

A building which is not intended to remain where it is erected for more than 28 days.

CLASS 5

Ancillary buildings

1.  A building on a site, being a building which is intended to be used only in connection with the disposal of buildings or building plots on that site.

2.  A building on the site of construction or civil engineering works, which is intended to be used only during the course of those works and contains no sleeping accommodation.

3.  A building, other than a building containing a dwelling or used as an office or showroom, erected for use on the site of and in connection with a mine or quarry.