A recent property case shows the wide variety of factors which can be taken into account when determining the primary use of a site. The case turned on whether a retail site was a shop (as the owner claimed) or a petrol station.
Factors considered in evidence included the amount of shelf space given to ordinary retail goods as opposed to car-related goods, the range of services offered (the site included a Costa coffee shop and an ATM machine) and the importance of the retail outlet in the local community.
Taking account of all the facts, the site was ruled to be a retail site.