Convention 3.10 - Appropriate Activity Selection for Animals Housed Overnight

Except where specific factors require otherwise (evidence will be required):

1. For buildings such as kennels or catteries where the main purpose is housing animals, the overallbuilding type should be “C2A Secure Residential Institutions”.

2. For buildings such as veterinary surgeries (where the main use profile is similar to that of a doctors’or dentists’ surgery) the overall building type should be “D1 Non-residential institutions – Primary healthcarebuilding”.

Within either type of building:

a) Where animals are housed overnight the activity is expected to require conditioning on a 24 hourbasis 7 days a week. Assessors should use building type “C2A Secure Residential Institutions” and “Cell(police/prison)” as the activity for the animal holding area.

b) Where animals are housed during working hours but are not kept overnight, assessors should usebuilding type “C2 Residential Institutions - Hospitals and Care Homes” and “Store room” as the activity forthe animal holding area.