PART 2Control of Building Work

Meaning of material change of use5

For the purposes of paragraph 8(1)(e) of Schedule 1 to the Act and for the purposes of these Regulations, there is a material change of use where there is a change in the purposes for which or the circumstances in which a building is used, so that after that change—

a

the building is used as a dwelling, where previously it was not;

b

the building contains a flat, where previously it did not;

c

the building is used as an hotel or a boarding house, where previously it was not;

d

the building is used as an institution, where previously it was not;

e

the building is used as a public building, where previously it was not;

f

the building is not a building described in classes 1 to 6 in Schedule 2, where previously it was;

g

the building, which contains at least one dwelling, contains a greater or lesser number of dwellings than it did previously;

h

the building contains a room for residential purposes, where previously it did not;

i

the building, which contains at least one room for residential purposes, contains a greater or lesser number of such rooms than it did previously; or

j

the building is used as a shop, where previously it was not.