Buying a repossession

planning_officer

havethis1 wrote: »

I think you only need PP for a loft if your classing it as a bedroom rather than just a room

No - that's irrelevant.

silvercar wrote: »

AFAIK, the enforcement notice is on the property, so whoever owns it will be liable for the costs of complying.

One way of complying may be to apply for retrospective planning permission and completing the work to an acceptable standard. Of course if you failed to get planning permission (and it needed it) you would have the cost of removing the loft room.

(Still assuming that the loft room is the bugbear, why not phone the council and ask them?)

I would have thought it's the dormers that are the issue. However, it may not be as simple as applying for retrospective planning permission - basically, Councils are only supposed to use enforcement notices to rectify breaches of planning control that are causing harm - they're not served willy nilly to anything without permission. If the unauthorised development is causing no harm it probably wouldn't have caused an enforcement notice to be served! Therefore, whatever it is that is the subject of the EN is likely to be objectionable for some reason in planning terms - maybe it's the design, or perhaps overlooking to neighbours?