Use Classes query-Tattoo and Beauty salons - Public forum - Planning Advisory Service (PAS)

My personal opinion is such a use now falls under Class E which is fairly wide-ranging. Class E covers activity the character of which falls within a commercial, business and service type of use. Nail bars can fall under (iii) any other services which it is appropriate to provide in a commercial, business or service locality, but depends on the nature of the activity. You'll also need to consider if the use is a service principally to visiting members of the public...(iii) "approriate to provide..." in a commercial, business or service locality and each element must be satisfied before the use falls within Class E(c)(iii). I think there may be some guidance available in the PPG.

Don't forget the basics. A change of use is only development requiring planning permission when it is a material change of use. Changes within a use class are deemed 'not development' but this does not necessarily mean that all other changes are necessarilly material. So case-by-case the real question is not whether a generic 'nail bar' falls within Class E, but whether a specific proposed use in a specific premises would be a material change of use of that premises.