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Regulation 5 Meaning of material change of use

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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 bui1ding 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 a 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; or

(f)

the building is not a building described in Classes I to VI in Schedule 2, where previously it was.