What exactly is or isn't "Human Habitation" ?

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Busy Fool

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The Exempted Development Regs are quite clear about physical dimensions / uses you can put a garden outbuilding to.

You can use an outbuilding, garden shed etc as a "work room", toolroom , storage etc but can you use it as a "home study" for teenage children or as an occasional "home office" ?

But what exactly is the informed view about what "Human Habitation" means ?

Could it be used as a "hobby space" or "music room" etc, all of course "incidental" to the enjoyment of the dwelling house ?? Would a teenager sulking in their "den" listening to music/surfing the web for 8-12 hrs a day not constitute "habitation" ?

Clearly sleeping/cooking/dining/bathing would move into the sphere of "habitation" so what other legitimate uses are left ?
 
the word habitation means the ability to be lived in.

individuala situations need to be considered on their merits
 
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