Hi,
you are quite lucky if you have had assurance from your local council that you will be granted a change of use.
I spoke this morning with K&C council and they told me that they "resist" any application for material change of use, i.e. they take your money for the application and then they reject it. When I spoke with them in Novemebr last year, before joining Airbnb, they gave me a completely different answer, and they let me believe it would be easy enough to get a change of use approved. If they had given me the info they gave me today I would have thought more before joining and making committments to guests.
From what I understand this is a law that only applies to Greater London. Doesn't this make my right to use my property as I see more convenient for me different from the rights of people that live in different parts of the country?
IS THERE ANYTHING THAT CAN BE DONE?
WHAT ARE THE OTHERS IN THIS SAME SITUATION DOING?
PLEASE HELP!!!