MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE

A Building Regulation application would be required in the following circumstances:

a)

the building is to be 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 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 I to VI 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.