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Material Alterations

mjth2004 · 2013-03-15 22:27:34

I am a little stuck on the understanding of ‘material alteration’ and if anyone can shed any light or direction on the subject I would be most grateful. Under the Building Control Act a ‘material alteration’ means an alteration (other than a repair or renewal), where the work, or any part of the work, carried out by itself…

15-03-2013 10:27pm

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I am a little stuck on the understanding of ‘material alteration’ and if anyone can shed any light or direction on the subject I would be most grateful.

Under the Building Control Act a ‘material alteration’ means an alteration (other than a repair or renewal), where the work, or any part of the work, carried out by itself would be subject to a requirement of Part A or B of the Second Schedule to the Building Regulations.

I have a project that has two proposals:

1. First Floor – to subdivide an existing open plan office area into a number of closed offices.
2. Third Floor – move the location of the existing canteen/tea-station to another part of the floor. In its place provide two new offices.

The building is four-storey and has a FSC granted in 2002. The owner of the building is holding onto the fourth floor for his business and rent out the other three floors to one tenancy. None of the proposed works relate to changing or impacting the existing structure and I don’t believe the changes have a significant knock on effect to the existing FSC.

So my question is does these two very small reconfigurations constitute a material alteration, therefore requiring a new FSC / DAC application?

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