{"entry-date":"2026-09-10","start-date":"2016-09-15","end-date":"","entity":6103626,"name":"Article 4 Direction: flexible town centre uses (town centres) 2015","dataset":"article-4-direction","typology":"legal-instrument","reference":"A4D-2015-FLEXIBLE-TOWN-CENTRE-USES","prefix":"article-4-direction","organisation-entity":163,"geometry":"","point":"","quality":"some","notes":"Made 20 July 2015 (Cabinet decision LHR L13 of 22 June 2015) and confirmed 15 September 2016, when it came into force. No end date is recorded: Part 4 Class D still exists (substituted from 1 August 2021 to refer to Class E), although the use classes named in the direction were replaced by Class E on 1 September 2020, so the practical effect of the direction is uncertain. Document URL is the council's Cabinet report with the direction appended; sealed and confirmed direction (Local Plan examination document ED044): https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1-JgvkX0RIKSFd1xIMPaFwY7Mz_OYvC06. The direction is no longer described on the council's article 4 page.","description":"Non-immediate direction withdrawing the Part 4 Class D permitted development right for temporary (up to two years) flexible changes of use between shops, financial and professional services, restaurants and cafes, drinking establishments, hot food takeaways, business, non-residential institution, assembly and leisure, betting office and pay day loan shop uses in Hackney's town centres and local shopping centres.","document-url":"https://hackney.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s43411/LHR%20L13_Flexible_Use_Cabinet_Report_FINAL.pdf","documentation-url":"https://www.hackney.gov.uk/planning-and-building/planning-policies-and-local-plan/article-4-directions#flexible-town-centre-uses"}