Material change of use
Approved Document F Volume 1, 2021 edition, states:
Material change of use Defined in regulation 5 as:
Where there is a change in the purposes for which or the circumstances in which a building is used, so that after that change:
- 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;
- j. the building is used as a shop, where it previously was not;
- k. the building is a building described in regulation 7(4)(a), where previously it was not.
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