Employment (B class) development 2011/2012 - 2018/2019

Overview

This section shows the changes in B1, B2 and B8 floorspace since the adoption of the Core Strategy in 2011, with figures provided in Chapter 6.

Use Class B1 is defined as office space (B1a), research and development (B1b) and light industrial (B1c). Use Class B2 is general industrial and Use Class B8 is storage and distribution, as follows:

The data shows both net and gross data (See chapter 6 Figures). Net data takes account of any demolished business space on the site of a completed development, and gross data only counts the newly-built floorspace.

The data is also shown in terms of completions and approvals. Completions log the year the developments are completed and approvals log the year the developments were approved.

Both tables will contain some of the same application data but due to length of time some developments take to build, the completions table includes approvals from as early as 2003 for example. The approvals data shows any planning applications that were permitted in any given year and could include schemes that are currently under construction or completed. Planning applications that have expired are excluded from the data. Around 10.5% of applications involving non-residential floorspace have expired over the last 10 years, so there is not a particularly high lapse rate of applications.

Page last updated: 19 December 2019