More than one appliance on an FCU ?

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Can you have more than one appliance connected to the same FCU ? I have an electric oven, gas hob (electric ignition) and a cooker hood and would rather not have three separate FCUs above my worktop. I was thinking about having the hob and cooker hood connected to one with the oven connected to the other. Is this OK ? What about connecting all three into the same FCU ? Or is this going too far ?
 
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Maybe get away with two. One feeding the extractor fan. The hob and oven could then be connected from another one via a twin socket fitted below worktop height and have plug tops on, with fuses rated to their own load. 3a and 13a I expect.

Although you may as well leave them for what you are gaining in space, if they are already connected via 3 switched fuse spurs,
 
Use a 6-module grid plate. 3 switches with appropriate labels or engraved legends, and 3 fuse modules.
 
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Thank you both for your replies. Judging from them, I assume that my original proposal wasn't daft.

Using the grid plate is an option though I would still prefer nothing bigger than a two gang plate above my worktop and the 6-module plate is a bit big for my liking. I am therefore considering using a 4-module grid and putting two of the appliances through one of the fuses. If this is silly, please do not hesitate to let me know.
 

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