Permitted Development Guide
From 1 October 2008,
certain changes will be introduced to the types of work that
you are permitted to carry out without the need to apply for
planning permission - ie permitted development
rights.
These works include defined small-scale home improvement and
alteration projects, extensions, alterations or improvements to
a dwelling house and the construction of buildings and
structures in the garden. They do not include work to buildings
containing flats.
Home owners should be aware that the
Planning Portal is unable to give specific advice relating to
individual properties. For example, it does not contain
information on whether or not a property is Listed, located
within a Conservation Area or subject to restrictive conditions
attached to previous planning permissions.
These new regulations may mean you will
not need permission to carry out the development in some cases
and in others, like new driveways, it will mean that you will.
It is important to check with the Planning Department whether permitted
development rights for your property have been varied or waived
before starting any work. The Planning Portal can help with
their Interactive Householders
Guide.
It should be born in mind that these
changes in the Planning rules for householders wishing to
extend or alter their properties, will not affect their
requirement to make a Building Regulations application (which
principally deals with health and safety aspects of the
building)
Some proposals which were previously
“permitted development” will now require planning permission,
including, for example, certain roof extensions and
conservatories or rear extensions over 3m in length. One major
change is that new or replacement paving or surfacing of a
front garden will now require permission where it is more than
five square metres, is not porous or where run-off cannot be
channelled to a porous area in the curtilage, such as a garden
border. Another change is that any upper floor side-facing
windows, in an otherwise permitted development scheme, will
have to be fitted with obscured glazing. New controls have also
been introduced for balconies, verandas and decking.
Permitted Development Guide -
microgeneration
Permitted Development Guide - full
legislation
Permitted Development Technical Guide from
the DCLG (best guide so far)
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