PART 2DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS

Meaning of “development”I16

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The following works are not to be treated as development for the purposes of section 208 of PA 2008 (liability)—

a

anything done by way of, or for the purpose of, the creation of a building of a kind mentioned in paragraph (2);

b

the carrying out of any work to, or in respect of, an existing building if, after the carrying out of that work, it is still a building of a kind mentioned in paragraph (2);

c

the carrying out of any work to, or in respect of, an existing building for which planning permission is required only because of provision made under section 55(2A) of TCPA 1990; and

d

the change of use of any building previously used as a single dwellinghouse to use as two or more separate dwellinghouses.

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The kinds of buildings mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) and (b) are—

a

a building into which people do not normally go;

b

a building into which people go only intermittently for the purpose of inspecting or maintaining fixed plant or machinery.