Project Type Guides – Page 6
How to get planning permission for extensions, conversions, new builds and commercial uses.
Project Type Guides articles – page 6
269 articlesA wedding venue in a farm building: the application
Why a barn wedding venue needs a full change of use application, and how the noise, dispersal, parking and drainage evidence decides it.
Expanding a poultry unit: the evidence you will need
Why most poultry expansions need a full application rather than a prior notification, and what the ammonia, odour, manure and traffic evidence has to show.
Consent for an illuminated shopfront sign
Signs run under their own regulations with only two tests. Here is when express consent is needed, what to submit for an illuminated display, and what enforcement looks like.
Turning a pub into housing: the protections to get past
Pub conversions fail on marketing evidence more than on design. Here is what the policy test asks for, how the community asset moratorium works, and which mixed schemes get consent.
Converting a rural chapel into a single house
A redundant chapel has no permitted development shortcut. Here is the heritage case, the survey season that governs the programme, and the burial ground consents that sit outside planning.
Planning permission for a shop-to-flat conversion above a parade
Class MA converts Class E floorspace to flats in eight weeks but permits no building works. If you need a new window, one full application is usually faster.
Planning permission for a crematorium
Section 5 of the Cremation Act 1902 rules out most urban sites before design begins. That is why these schemes end up in the countryside arguing Green Belt policy.
Planning permission for bin and cycle stores at flats
Flats have no outbuilding permitted development rights, so a roofed forecourt store needs permission. Capacity standards, carry distances and design decide it.
Planning permission for a replacement dwelling in the countryside
A replacement dwelling application in open countryside stands or falls on proof that the existing building is lawfully a house and that its residential use was never abandoned.
Planning permission for caravan storage on farmland
Agricultural permitted development does not cover storage. Here is what a caravan and motorhome storage application on farmland has to evidence.
Planning permission for a school classroom block
Part 7 of the GPDO covers some school buildings, but not on a playing field. Beyond those limits you need a full application and Sport England becomes a consultee.
Planning permission for shepherd huts for tourism
If the hut is a caravan, the question is the use of land as a caravan site. If it is fixed down, it is a building, and the application is much harder.
Planning permission for a livery yard
Keeping other people's horses is not agriculture, so a livery yard needs permission as a sui generis commercial use. Manure, access and floodlighting decide most applications.
Planning permission for a community garden or allotments
Growing food on land is often outside the definition of development. The sheds, the parking, the fencing and the soil testing are where allotment schemes actually need consent.
Planning permission for a farm reservoir or irrigation pond
Most irrigation reservoirs need full planning permission because excavating a basin is an engineering operation. Here is how the permitted development limits, reservoir safety thresholds and abstraction licensing fit together.
Permission for a taxi or private hire operating base
There is no permitted development route into a taxi or private hire base. Parking evidence and night-time noise decide most applications, and licensing is a separate matter.
Permission for a farm glasshouse or polytunnel block
Commercial polytunnels are development, and the 1,000 square metre ground area limit in Part 6 rules out most blocks. Landscape effect and run-off then decide the application.
Permission for a cemetery extension
Burial capacity is the easy part of a cemetery extension. The hydrogeological risk assessment, trial pits and Environment Agency standoffs decide how long the application takes.
Permission for a rooftop plant enclosure on an office
A screened plant deck on an office roof turns on two things: BS 4142 noise breakout to the nearest residential windows, and what the enclosure does to the skyline.
Permission for a go-kart or off-road driving track
Motorsport tracks are decided on noise. The temporary use allowance gives 14 racing days a year, and the permanent route turns on background sound levels, bunds and conditions.
Permission for a modular classroom at a school
Whether a modular classroom needs permission turns on Part 7 Class M of the GPDO and on playing field land. Sport England's exceptions decide more schemes than local plan policy does.
Permission for a car showroom and vehicle sales
A car showroom needs permission for the building and separately for the land cars stand on, and forecourt lighting and transporter deliveries decide most applications.
Permission for a poultry unit and its EIA screening
Bird numbers and new floorspace decide whether a poultry unit needs an environmental statement, and ammonia deposition on nearby habitats usually decides the application.
Planning permission for a slurry store or lagoon
Planning decides whether a slurry store can be built. The storage regulations decide how it is built and when it may be filled. Both have to be satisfied before the first load.
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