Project Type Guides – Page 9
How to get planning permission for extensions, conversions, new builds and commercial uses.
Project Type Guides articles – page 9
268 articlesGetting permission for a community sports pavilion
The principle of a pavilion is rarely contested. Siting on the pitch layout, lighting spill and Sunday morning parking are what decide the application.
Getting permission for a dental or medical practice in a house
A house to surgery conversion needs permission, and the loss of the dwelling is usually the main objection. What evidence answers it, and what the council will condition.
Getting permission for a funeral directors and chapel of rest
The office looks like Class E. The mortuary and chapel of rest may not. How the use class boundary, drainage consent and cortege access decide the application.
Getting permission for a used car sales pitch
Displaying vehicles for sale sits outside every use class, so there is no permitted development route. Here is what decides a car sales pitch application.
Getting permission for a vehicle repair workshop
A garage is general industry in planning terms, which puts it outside Class E and outside most permitted changes. Noise and drainage are what the council will actually argue about.
Getting permission for a soft play centre
A soft play centre generates its busiest hour on a Saturday morning, which is exactly when the highway officer is not looking. Getting the survey periods right matters more than the use class.
Getting permission for a gym in a warehouse unit
Moving a gym into an industrial unit is a change of use from B8 to Class E(d). Structure borne noise from free weights is the technical issue that most applications get wrong.
Getting permission for a wedding venue in a farm barn
Holding weddings in a farm building is a change of use to a sui generis events venue. The application turns on amplified music, guest traffic on a single track lane and drainage at peak occupancy.
Planning permission for a purpose-built shared house
Building a shared house from scratch takes you outside Class C4 and outside permitted development. Here is what the council will test and what evidence to file with the application.
Planning permission for a veterinary practice
A veterinary practice is usually a Class E use, which makes the use class the easy part. The application turns on animal noise, anaesthetic extract, clinical waste storage and out-of-hours access.
Planning permission for a natural burial ground
A natural burial ground is a sui generis change of use, and the Environment Agency's groundwater separation distances decide more applications than landscape or traffic ever do. Here is how to test a site and build the case.
Planning permission for a co-living scheme
Large-scale purpose-built shared living sits outside every use class, which gives councils wide discretion over the standards applied. Here is how to frame the classification, the amenity case and the obligations.
Planning permission for a care home or extra care scheme
The C2 classification decides more about a care scheme than the design does, from affordable housing policy to CIL. Here is how to evidence the use class, the overheating criteria for vulnerable occupants and the parking case.
Planning permission for a micro-brewery with a taproom
A microbrewery with a taproom is a mixed use that needs express planning permission. The decision usually turns on the boil vent, trade effluent consent and patron noise rather than the use class argument.
Planning permission for dog day care and boarding kennels
Boarding kennels and dog day care are sui generis uses judged on noise. What a barking assessment must include, how to design the noise out, and why licensing is separate.
Planning permission for an electric vehicle charging hub
Permitted development covers the charging equipment in an existing car park. The canopy, the substation and the change of use need an application, and noise decides many of them.
Planning permission for a delivery only kitchen
A kitchen cooking only for delivery sits awkwardly in the Use Classes Order. How to settle the classification, and the extraction, rider and noise evidence councils expect.
Planning permission for an agricultural worker's dwelling
A rural worker dwelling turns on whether the need is essential. The functional test, the three years of accounts, the temporary route and the occupancy condition that follows.
Planning permission for upward extension to add flats
Rooftop flats can go through Part 20 prior approval or a full application. Which one works depends on the building's age, location and structure, and on whether it crosses 18 metres.
Planning permission for a new house in a back garden
A house in a back garden is a full application, not a householder one. Access, amenity, character and boundary trees decide it, and each needs a drawing rather than an assertion.
Change of use to a dental or medical practice
A dental or medical practice sits in Class E, so a move from a shop or an office may need no permission at all. From a house or a sui generis use, the application turns on parking, waste and plant.
Self-build on a garden plot: permission to subdivide
Subdividing a garden for one self-build house is a minor application with a hard planning test. The argument is almost always about plot pattern, access and what is left behind for the original house.
Office to residential conversion under Class MA
Class MA lets a building in Class E use become homes through prior approval rather than a full application. The route is narrower than it looks, and the conditions on the building matter as much as the design.
Demolishing a building: when you need permission first
Demolition is development. Most of it is permitted subject to a prior approval on method, but conservation areas, listed buildings and dwellings each work differently.
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