Next Doors Planning Permission

Naughty_Sausage

wow, thanks for all of your replies. you were all very helpful.

the house in question is owned by a lady who lives on her own. she is over 60 and is unlikely to ever have children so I cannot see that she would ever want to do the extension. but if she passes away and the house needs to be sold, then who knows what will happen.

I believe that the order of things was as follows:
sought planning permission for extension over the top of the garage
granted
rebuilt existing garage but with footings sufficient (at the time) for the extension to go ahead should it be required at any time
no further work done on house
we have since had an extension on the back which required PP and no mention was made of their PP at all during this

I believe that this was all in excess of 10 years ago. we have been here for over 7 years and i believe this was all done some time before we moved in. No mention was made when we bought our house of the PP existing next door

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adr0ck

in that case they would still have planning permission to build over the garage

with regards to the footings ..................i can't see them having any problems.................even if they did...they could specify lighter building materials than the footings were originally designed to take

poppysarah

adr0ck wrote: »

that really does depend on the spec of the foundations that were put in at the time

without knowing you cannot tell whether they would pass current building regs or not

But they have to have an inspection so the BCO would know and it is worth asking.

silvercar

Our house had PP granted to previous owners to build a 2 storey extension at the side and rear (so the rear build is directly behind the side extension). They secured a letter from the planning department agreeing that the work could be done in stages. They then built the side extension but not the rear part and had that signed off as complete. They then sold. As part of our enquiries on buying, the council planning dept confirmed that we have the permission to go back and, as the extension was partly done and therefore started, that permission does not run out. Ever.

mustang1

Why don't you ask the neighbours or the Council for a copy of the planning permission?

Whilst most planning permissions expire within 3 years if they have not been implemented (ie by doing some initial work), some permissions also have a condition stating that the work must be completed within x years so it's worth checking the actual permission document.

poppysarah

mustang1 wrote: »

some permissions also have a condition stating that the work must be completed within x years so it's worth checking the actual permission document.

They don't have to ask the neighbour. The nice people at the planning dept will help.

adr0ck

poppysarah wrote: »

But they have to have an inspection so the BCO would know and it is worth asking.

they would have been inspected when the garage was built

op seems to be saying that they got planning permission for room above garage

demolished existing garage

built new garage (without building room above - to leave that for later)

therefore foundations would have been designed on the plans for garage with room above and this is what the BCO would have inspected when he inspected footings for the garage

soulsaver

poppysarah wrote: »

But they have to have an inspection so the BCO would know and it is worth asking.

Wouldn't they have passed BC at the time they were laid?

Dinah93

Was the new garage part of the planning application? If it was then yes, they can build to the side whenever they like. However just the foundations would not be considered a 'substantial start' by most authorities. Whether it is to modern building regs does not in any way affect whether the planning permission is valid or not - you can have one without the other. ( I am a planning officer, deal with this sort of thing frequently).