PART 2E+WControl of Building Work

Meaning of material change of useE+W

5.  For [F1the 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; F2F3...

(j)the building is used as a shop, where previously it was not F4[F5; or

(k)the building is a building described in regulation 7(4)(a), where previously it was not].

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