Project Type Guides – Page 4
How to get planning permission for extensions, conversions, new builds and commercial uses.
Project Type Guides articles – page 4
267 articlesPlanning permission for a floodlit riding arena
Keeping horses for riding is not agriculture, so an arena needs permission for both the works and the change of use. Floodlighting decides most of these applications.
Getting permission for a pontoon or slipway on a river
A piled pontoon or excavated slipway is operational development out to the low water mark. Planning permission is the straightforward part, and rarely the one that shapes the design.
Planning permission for a skatepark in a public park
A skatepark in a council park needs planning permission, usually granted by the authority to itself under regulation 3. Noise and open space policy decide most schemes.
Rooftop flats: Class AA compared with a full application
Airspace schemes look simple on a section drawing. The permitted development route brings a long list of prior approval matters, and on many buildings a full application ends up being the quicker of the two.
Using a field for camping through the summer
A field can be used for camping for 28 days a year under permitted development, but not for caravans or motorhomes. Here is what the allowance covers, which licences apply and what a seasonal application needs.
Replacing shopfronts across a parade of units
Shopfront works need planning permission for the frontage and advertisement consent for the signage, judged on different tests. Here is how to structure a parade-wide scheme so both run together.
Reopening a closed village pub: consents and evidence
A pub does not lose its planning use just because it has been shut. This covers abandonment, lawful development certificates, community value listing and the noise and parking evidence that reopening usually needs.
Gates, piers and boundary walls next to the highway
The permitted height for a wall, fence or gate is 1 metre where it adjoins a highway used by vehicles and 2 metres elsewhere. Here is how the limit works, and what the highway engineer will ask about visibility and gate swing.
Building a detached garage with a room above
Permitted development for outbuildings stops at a single storey, so a garage with a room above needs an application. This is how to design one that gets granted.
Regularising works already built without permission
Section 73A lets a council grant permission for work already done, judged on the same merits as any other application. Here is how to put one together.
Formalising an established use with a certificate
A lawful development certificate is the only formal way to confirm an existing use is lawful. This covers the immunity periods, the evidence and the drafting.
Adding a mezzanine inside an industrial unit
Internal works are usually not development, but a retail mezzanine over 200 square metres is. Here is the threshold, the parking consequence and the building control position.
Bringing a long-vacant upper floor back into use
Vacant rooms above a shop may already be lawfully residential, or they may be part of the Class E unit. Which one decides the route, the evidence and the timetable.
Redeveloping a petrol station for housing
Hydrocarbons, tanks that may still be in the ground and the risk of vapours reaching a future living room drive the whole application. The desk study belongs with the submission.
Getting consent for extra care and later living housing
Classification decides everything else. Describe the care model precisely, evidence the minimum package per resident, and design the building around it rather than the other way round.
Converting an office floor into co-living rooms
Rooms with shared kitchens are not C3 dwellinghouses, so the permitted development route closes and you are making a full application for a use with no class at all.
Putting up polytunnels on a horticultural holding
Substantial polytunnel blocks are usually building operations under section 55, and one hectare of tunnels is more than twenty times the Part 6 permitted development ceiling. Here is how to apply for them properly.
Erecting a grain store under agricultural permitted development
A prior notification is not a planning application. The holding size test, the height and position limits, the 28 day period, and the conditions that attach automatically.
Creating a farm reservoir for irrigation
Volume and fill source decide everything. Agricultural permitted development, the raised reservoir threshold, winter abstraction licensing and the survey seasons that set the programme.
Installing a private borehole and water treatment plant
A private borehole involves three regulators and at least four consents. Which parts need planning permission, when an abstraction licence applies, and the order that saves money.
Building a tennis court in a large garden
The court surface, the fencing and the lights are three separate consent questions. Class F covers the surface, 2 m caps the fence, and lighting almost always needs permission.
Turning a railway arch into a gym or studio
Three consents run in parallel on an arch conversion, and the technical constraints are predictable: no drainage, no cross-ventilation, damp brickwork and trains overhead.
Consent route for a modular classroom at a school
Three questions decide a modular classroom: does Class M of Part 7 cover it, is a temporary permission right, and does it sit on a playing field?
What a trampoline park application has to prove
A trampoline park application is decided on vibration through the building frame, airborne noise, the weekend parking peak and servicing. Here is the evidence councils expect.
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