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national term:

butiksformål

national definition:

Planloven indeholder særlige regler for planlægning til butiksformål. Undersøgelser viste at en væsentlig del af butikkerne blev bygget i udkanten af de største byer som store butikker og butikscentre. Det er en udvikling som svækker detailhandelen i de mange mindre byer, som påvirker det lokale erhverv og som forringer mulighederne for at bevare og modernisere bymidterne. Planlovens detailhandelsregler blev ændret i 1997 for at vende disse udviklingstendenser. I 2002 blev reglerne forenklet, men formålet er fastholdt.

Det fremgår som et klart mål at planlægningen skal fremme en udvikling i de mange mindre og mellemstore bymidter og bremse udviklingen med store butikker og butikscentre på bar mark uden for de største byer. I planlægningen anvendes tre styringsmidler:

  • Afgrænsning af bymidter og bydelscentre,
  • Maksimalt butiksareal for hvert område, og
  • Maksimale butiksstørrelser.
Som hovedregel skal nye arealer til butiksformål udlægges i bymidten. Loven indeholder nogle få undtagelser fra denne hovedregel. Det gælder fx mindre lokale butikker og butikker med særlig pladskrævende varegrupper, som eksempelvis biler, tømmer, byggematerialer, planter og havebrugsvarer, møbler og køkkenelementer.


english term:

retail trade

english definition:

The Planning Act contains specific provisions for planning for retail trade. Surveys showed that many retail outlets were being built in the fringe of large cities as large shops and shopping centres. This trend weakens retail trade in many small towns, influences local business and diminishes the prospect of preserving and modernizing city centres. The retail trade stipulations of the Planning Act were amended in 1997 to counteract these tendencies. The regulations were simplified in 2002, but the purpose was maintained.

A clear objective of spatial planning is to promote development in the many small and medium-sized town centres and prevent further location of large shops and shopping centres on greenfields outside large cities. Spatial planning uses three means of regulation:

  • delimiting town centres and centres of city districts;
  • establishing maximum shop floor areas for each area; and
  • establishing maximum shop sizes.
The general rule is that new areas designated for retail trade purposes must be located in town centres. The Planning Act contains a few exceptions from this rule, such as small local shops and shops that solely sell types of goods that require unusually large quantities of floor space and that cannot be fit into the centre of a town or city district, including cars, timber, construction commodities, plants and gardening effects, furniture and kitchen units.



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