Planning permission
You will need planning permission to change your home in any of the following ways:
- change of use of a building previously used as a single dwelling house to 2 or more separate dwelling houses or flats
- change of use of 2 or more premises previously used as 2 separate dwelling houses or flats to a single dwelling house
- change of use of a building or part of a building previously used as a dwelling house for short term holiday lettings
- change of use to create a time sharing scheme in respect of building on the land
- change of use of a non-domestic building to domestic use
Building permission
You will need building permission if you want to change the use of a building:
- to a house
- to a flat
- the building, which contains at least 1 dwelling, contains a greater or lesser number of dwellings than it did previously
When a material change of use takes place, the building, or affected part, may need to be upgraded to satisfy certain important parts of the building bye-laws, including:
- fire safety
- ventilation provision
- energy conservation
- structure
- weather resistance
- fire spread
- sound insulation
To change the use of a building for commercial purposes refer to our commercial and other development section.
Commercial and other development