Operating a Business from Home

If you are considering operating a business from home, Council may wish to be assured that your activities do not involve:

• Factory

• Employment of other persons

• Interference with amenity

• Selling of goods

Four main categories of operating from home

1. Home Occupation
2. Home Office
3. Home industry
4. Professional consulting rooms

Home Occupation

• Means an occupation/business carried on in a house or flat by the permanent residents

Home Office

• Means an office/business comprising part of the house or flat in which the occupation is predominantly information based and carried out by the permanent residents.

• The office does not employ more than two people who live away from the house or flat.

Home Industry

• Means an industry carried on in a building (other than a house or flat)

• The building does not exceed a floor space ration of 50 square meters and is erected within the curtilage of the house or flat and occupied or owned by the person carrying on the business.

• The industry does not interfere with the amenity of the locality.

Professional Consulting Room

• Means a room or number of rooms forming part of a house or flat and used by not more than 1 legally qualified medical practioner or not than more than 1 dentist.

If you are looking a getting into business or are already in business, Tony Taktak & Associates can show how to build wealth, through long - term investments.