1268.0.55.001 - Functional Classification of Buildings, 1999 (Revision 2011)  
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2 Commercial Buildings

    Buildings primarily occupied with or engaged in commercial trade or work intended for commercial trade, including buildings used primarily for retail and wholesale trade, office and transport activities.

    Notwithstanding any commercial trade use, this division explicitly excludes industrial and residential buildings as well as those predominantly for the provision of education, religious worship or other religious activities, health or veterinary care, recreation, entertainment, temporary accommodation or the provision of care to children, the aged, or other persons (as per the classes defined in the Other non-residential buildings division).

        211 Retail and wholesale trade buildings
        22 Transport buildings
          221 Passenger transport buildings
          222 Non-passenger transport buildings
          223 Commercial carparks
          224 Transport buildings n.e.c.
        231 Offices
        291 Commercial buildings n.e.c.

    211 Retail and wholesale trade buildings
    Commercial buildings primarily used for the sale of goods to intermediate and end users and the provision of services on a shop-front basis except where another class of this division applies. This class excludes storage warehouses which are included in the Industrial buildings division. Examples include:
        Bakery (retail)
        Barber
        Bistro
        Bottleshop
        Boutique
        Butcher shop
        Café
        Car yard
        Delicatessen
        Department store
        Dry cleaner establishment
        Funeral parlour
        Green grocer
        Grocery
        Hardware store
        Hotel (predominantly drinking)
        Jeweller
        Kiosk
        Laundromat
        Market (wholesale or retail)
        Pet shop
        Petrol station (no vehicle servicing)
        Pharmacy (retail)
        Plant nursery (public sales)
        Post office (shopfront)
        Restaurant
        Retail ‘warehouse’
        Salon
        Shoe repair
        Shop
        Shopping arcade
        Shopping centre
        Showroom
        Snack bar
        Souvenir centre
        Supermarket
        Take-away food store
        Tavern
        Ticket booking and sales (off-site)
        Winery building (sales/tasting centre)

      Excludes:
        Storage warehouses
        Commercial storage facilities

    22 Transport buildings
    Commercial buildings primarily used in the provision of transport services, or facilities supporting transport services. The class also includes commercial carpark buildings. This class has four subclasses:

        221 Passenger transport buildings

        Buildings primarily used in providing passenger transport services, such as passenger, bus and rail terminals. Examples include:
            Airport passenger terminal
            Bus station
            Coach depot
            Railway station
            Railway ticket offices (at station)
            Passenger transport interchange

        222 Non-passenger transport buildings
        Buildings primarily used in providing non-passenger transport services. Examples include:
            Air freight terminal
            Cargo shed (freight)
            Freight loading terminal
            Loading dock building
            Port terminal building
            Weighbridge station

        223 Commercial carparks
        A carpark building that is commercial in nature and is built independently of other building developments. Carparks built as part of other distinct building developments and intended to service these are excluded from this definition and should be classified to the buildings with which they are associated. Examples include:
            Carparks (covered, multistorey or underground)
            Parking stations (covered or multistorey)

          Excludes:
            Car parking lots (non-building car parks)
            Car parks as part of a shopping centre or other development

        224 Transport buildings n.e.c.
        Other commercial transport buildings and facilities supporting transport services. Includes buildings such as:
            Air traffic control buildings
            Aircraft storage buildings (hangar)
            Aircraft maintenance buildings
            Bus storage sheds
            Bus maintenance buildings
            Taxi despatch centre
            Tram or train servicing depots
            Truck sheds

    231 Offices

    Buildings primarily used in the provision of professional or financial services or public administration. Examples include:
        Administration building
        Advertising agency
        Bank
        Building society
        Credit union
        Financial services
        Government offices
        Insurance brokerage
        Office building
        Property manager
        Real estate agent
        Solicitor
        Stock exchange or broker
        Town hall (administrative)

    291 Commercial buildings n.e.c.
    Commercial buildings not elsewhere classified, such as
        Car wash
        Crash/smash repair
        Garage – servicing
        Mail sorting centre
        Marina
        Mechanic
        Metering station
        Pet boarding facility
        Petrol station (vehicle servicing)
        Service centre (vehicle)


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