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| Cwatters
Gold Level Contributor Username: Cwatters Post Number: 1780 Registered: 12-2004 |
Hidden alongside recently proposed changes to the planning laws was a proposal that went un-noticed. Plans to do away with Permitted Development Rights! This is your right to extend your house without needing planning permission as long as the extension is less than 15% of the area of your house and less than 70 sqm. Many extensions each year are built under this rule. It gets a mention in this article in the Times.. http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/article1878605.ece Quote: An extra consultation paper was published alongside the planning White Paper and was little noticed at the time. In it the Government is proposing to scrap the rule allowing householders to add space to their homes without planning permission if it is within 15 per cent of the total volume of the property and a maximum of 70 square metres. Instead, specific restrictions are proposed for loft and roof extensions and any raised terrace, balcony, veranda or decking, including railings, walls or balustrades. Anyone wishing to install a clear-glass working window on the side of a house will also require permission. | ||
| Cwatters
Gold Level Contributor Username: Cwatters Post Number: 1781 Registered: 12-2004 |
The more I look at this the worse it gets..Far from being the relaxation of the planning rules that the government announced - it's actually a tightening. According to one web site the new rules say you won't need PP for a loft converstion as long as any new bits (eg a dormer or new ridge and gable) are 1 meter below the existing ridge. However the existing rules only require Planning Permission if they are above the ridge. That sounds like a tightening to me. | ||
| Caliwag
Gold Level Contributor Username: Caliwag Post Number: 671 Registered: 12-2005 |
It will kill useful dormers in the north where many small terrace houses are only about 2.5m attic floor to ridge. I guess they either havn't thought it through (don't know of any consultation) or it's all part of the secret agenda to demolish acres of Victorian terrace houses...perfectly good homes, but difficult to make efficient. As WE know, of course, most new, volume-builds are actually so badly built, they are less efficient. We could get a good discussion going on this one...I posted the confusion, wrongly, on a loft thread. Last week's Observer ran two opposing articles about loft conversions...one, written, without scrutiny of the legislation by the Town and Country planning association, which should know better, applauded the freeing up of extension and loft conversion rules...the more factual article briefly outlined your, worrying, comments Colin...just fancy. |
