# The Building Regulations 2000, Regulation 5: Meaning of material change of use


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 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 I to VI in Schedule 2, where previously it was; or
(g) the building, which contains at least one dwelling, contains a greater or lesser number of dwellings than it did previously.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2531/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-2000/regulation-5
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