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We are already paying council tax on it, as someone dobbed us in. But thank you for letting me know.

Thanks for all the replies. So the annexe in question used to be a garage (separate from the main house) and had a kitchen and bathroom put In by the previous owners. They rented it to family members. Now we have renovated it and would like to rent it on air bnb, (it’s not large enough to live in!) and I want to know if I should apply for change of use. I understand from my research that if a family member was to live in it I wouldn’t need to, but I don’t have a need for that currently. Obviously I don’t really want to have to apply for change of use unless I have to, as it’s expensive and from researching some other case they might even say no. Despite it being good for tourism to do so?

So I have a question about planning. If your previous owners of a house you buy let out an annexe on their land, then when you purchase the property do you by default have the right to the implied change of use? in the same way that if you purchase the house with some changes they had not applied for through planning, then after 6 years these would be exempt from enforcement? Would the change of use be exempt from enforcement too? many thanks in advance.