7.6.1 Primacy of the City Centre & Retail Core Area

In order to maintain and strengthen the retail character of the city centre retail core, which can be adversely affected by dead frontage and lower-order retail uses, the premier shopping streets in the city centre retail core are designated category 1 and category 2 shopping streets.

The purpose of this designation is to protect the primary retail function of these streets as the principal shopping streets in the retail core with an emphasis on higher order comparison retail and a rich mix of uses. The designation controls the extent of provision of non-retail uses at ground floor level, but also allows for uses complementary to the main shopping focus such as a cafés, bars, restaurants and galleries. Also ground floors should have a minimum commercial floor to ceiling height (4-5m) for design, use and adaptability reasons.

The land-use criteria for the category 1 and 2 streets are set out in the Retail Strategy, Appendix 3 and their locations are shown in Figure 7: City Centre Retail Core, Principal Shopping Streets.

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7.6.1 objective of dcc
7.6.1 policy of dcc