Belfast·SPG012 Sensitive Uses·Page 5·1.1.5
Definition of Sensitive Uses and Associated Impacts
Sensitive uses are considered sensitive both due to their location and potential adverse amenity impacts, and due to their impact on public health and wellbeing, including physical impacts from unhealthy foods and mental health impacts from problem gambling.
As indicated above, restaurants, cafés, hot food takeaways, bookmaking offices, amusement centres, pubs and nightclubs are considered sensitive uses in terms of their location and the associated potential adverse amenity impacts. However, they can also be considered sensitive uses in terms of the impact they have upon the health and wellbeing of the population, both physically (hot food takeaways contributing to obesity through unhealthy foods) and mentally (bookmaking offices, amusement centres and bingo halls contributing to problem gambling).
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