{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-information-pack-regulations-2006/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-information-pack-regulations-2006/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1503",
  "legislation_title": "The Home Information Pack Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-information-pack-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Meaning of “non-residential premises”",
  "text": "(1) In this Part “non-residential premises” includes—\n(a) premises where the most recent use of the premises, is or was primarily non-residential; and\n(b) any dwelling-house where it is clear from the manner in which it is marketed that it is due to be converted for primarily non-residential use by the time its sale is completed, and all the relevant—\n(i) planning permissions; and\n(ii) listed building consents,\nexist in relation to the conversion.\n(2) For the purposes of this Part, where a question arises as to whether premises are—\n(a) non-residential premises; or\n(b) residential property by virtue of being ancillary land,\nthe premises may be treated as non-residential premises if the conditions in paragraph (3) are met.\n(3) The conditions referred to in paragraph (2) are that—\n(a) the total area of the land is 5 hectares or more; and\n(b) the most recent use of the land is or was primarily for one or more of the following purposes—\n(i) horticulture or cultivation;\n(ii) the breeding or keeping of animals or livestock; or\n(iii) the use of land as grazing land or woodlands.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Under section 148(1) of the 2004 Act, “residential property” consists of a single dwelling-house, including any ancillary land. “Ancillary land” is defined in section 177(1) as meaning in relation to a dwelling-house or a sub-divided building “any land intended to be occupied and enjoyed together with that dwelling-house or building”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1503/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:27:45.032197+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}