Planning Permission And What It Means For Your Installation
At a design appointment we’ll talk about design considerations, glazing options, hardware, finishing touches, and one other essential topic – planning permission.
Our knowledge of planning permission has been built up over many years and is extensive, as will become apparent when you speak to any of County’s advisors.
Flouting planning laws is one of the worst things you can do. It can make a house sale hard work and could result in you being told to modify the conservatory or porch design to bring it in line with the regulations, or you may not be afforded that opportunity and just be forced to demolish it.
These nightmare scenarios won’t come to pass if you assign County with responsibility for the project as we’ll ensure everything is done by the rules.
Do you need planning permission for conservatories?
Conservatories with Permitted Development Rights do not require planning permission and can be built without the submission of a planning application.
For a conservatory to be a Permitted Development it has to comply with a series of limits and conditions.
The relevant limits and conditions can be found on this page of our website.
Do you need planning permission for porches?
Porches can also enjoy Permitted Development Rights, in which case, they gain an exception from planning laws.
It’s a different set of limits and conditions they must comply with to hold Permitted Development status:
- the ground floor area (measured externally) would not exceed three square metres.
- no part would be more than three metres above ground level (height needs to be measured in the same way as for a house extension).
- no part of the porch would be within two metres of any boundary of the dwellinghouse and the highway.
Can you explain the planning process to me?
You can submit a planning application by post, email or through the Planning Portal, which is the national system for submitting planning applications.
As for how much an application costs, you can find this out by using the Planning Portal’s fee calculator.
Applications have to be ratified by the relevant local authority and once they are they then go to a public consultation, lasting three to eight weeks. This consultation is to give affected neighbours fair warning of the proposed enhancement so that they have an opportunity to object to the plans should they feel they’re justified in doing so. It’s normally just after the eight-week mark that you will receive notification of whether the application has been signed off or not.
From our research, we discovered that 86% of planning applications in this country are accepted, so there’s good odds of your application being passed through.
To accompany this blog, County has also written a Helpful Guide to Planning Permission.
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One of our multi-purpose living spaces will give you the roominess that you desire so that you can also invite more people over and feel so much less restricted.
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