Is it illegal to turn an industrial plant into a dining place?

It is not illegal to change an industrial factory into a dining place.

To change the use of industrial buildings, the following approval procedures are required:

1. Change the nature of land use. Where the construction unit uses state-owned land, it shall use the land in accordance with the provisions of the paid use contract such as the transfer of land use rights or the approval document for the allocation of land use rights; If it is really necessary to change the use of the land for construction, it shall be approved by the land administrative department of the relevant people's government and reported to the people's government that originally approved the land use. Among them, the change of land use in the urban planning area shall be approved by the relevant urban planning administrative department before approval;

2. Registration of change of house ownership.

The process of transforming industrial land into commercial land;

1. The original land user applies to the land department for returning the land, and the original land user entrusts both parties and the recognized evaluation agency to determine the compensation price to compensate the original land user;

2. The land department shall, according to the adjusted new use and planning conditions of the original plot issued by the planning department, comprehensively consider the land transfer fee standard, land cost, market education reference price and the recent transaction price of adjacent plots, and the planning, land, finance and supervision departments shall collectively review and determine the starting price of land transfer, and the land trading institutions shall organize the bidding, auction and transfer according to law;

3. New land users will be created after bidding, auction and transfer. The new land user signs a transaction confirmation with the land transaction institution, signs a land transfer contract with the land department, and pays the land transfer price according to the contract;

4. The land user shall apply for the certificate of land use right after paying all the land transfer price according to the land transfer contract.

To sum up, changing the nature of land use requires the permission of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, otherwise it is illegal.

Legal basis:

Article 56 of the Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China

Where the construction unit uses state-owned land, it shall use the land in accordance with the provisions of the paid use contract such as the transfer of land use rights or the approval document for the allocation of land use rights; If it is really necessary to change the use of the land for construction, it shall be approved by the land administrative department of the relevant people's government and reported to the people's government that originally approved the land use.