Planning and constraints
Mixed-use building
A building that holds both residential and commercial units; a property of the building's unit mix rather than of any single unit, and the conversion cohort.
Also called: mixed use, shop with flat above, commercial to residential.
Definition
Mixed-use building, as the data uses it
A shop with flats above, an office block with a penthouse, a pub with letting rooms: the building holds both uses. That fact is invisible in any single property record and hard to source elsewhere, because it is a property of the building's unit mix. MarketCode reads it from the residential and commercial unit counts on each building and returns the buildings in an area that hold both, with thresholds on each.
It matters for permitted development (commercial-to-residential change of use under Class MA) and for valuation, where a mixed-use freehold is valued differently from either use alone.
Tools
Tools that return it
Mixed-use buildings in an area
mixed_use_buildings()Buildings holding BOTH residential and commercial units — the conversion and permitted-development cohort.
Physical form of buildings
building_physical()Physical form of the buildings a set of UPRNs sit in: height, volume, footprint area, floor count, construction and roof material, basement, green roof, solar panels, and the residential/commercial unit mix.
Built-stock profile of an area
area_stock_profile()Composition of the built stock in an area: unit counts, HMO share, mixed-use share, median building height and footprint, solar penetration.
See also
Related terms
- Permitted development: Changes an owner may make without a planning application, granted nationally by the General Permitted Development Order, subject to limits and to local withdrawal by Article 4.
- Plot utilisation (built coverage): The share of a land parcel covered by building footprint; a low figure on a large parcel is the signature of an under-built site.
FAQ
Questions about mixed-use building
What does Mixed-use building mean?
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A building that holds both residential and commercial units; a property of the building's unit mix rather than of any single unit, and the conversion cohort.
Which MarketCode tools return mixed-use building?
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Mixed-use buildings in an area, Physical form of buildings, Built-stock profile of an area. Each runs as an MCP tool in Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor and as a REST endpoint with an API key, at the same price.
Is shop with flat above the same thing?
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Yes. mixed use, shop with flat above, commercial to residential are other names for what this entry defines; MarketCode uses "Mixed-use building" in its tool descriptions and responses.
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