Adding a lean-to, planning permission?

misskool

planning_officer wrote: »

In that case, yes - your extension needs planning permission, as it is on a side wall that faces a highway (that includes a public footpath).

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That's the end of that then. How annoying!!

planning_officer

Surely you could just apply for planning permission for it?

phill99

Its all very well people sat at their PC's offering chapter and verse, but in reality, we have been furnished with very few details and none of us are actually in aposition to say whether it does or doesn't reqire PP. We are not from your local authority planning dept, nor do we sit on the planning committee.

For the sake of a phone call tomorrow, just call them and ask them.

They may require some more details, but at least then you will know for definite. And if it does need PP, just apply for it. Whats the worst that can happen?

misskool

planning_officer wrote: »

Surely you could just apply for planning permission for it?

Applying for PP costs money. If I were to do a 'proper' extension then I would consider it. But I'd not pay the money just to put up a lean-to.

planning_officer

phill99 wrote: »

Its all very well people sat at their PC's offering chapter and verse, but in reality, we have been furnished with very few details and none of us are actually in aposition to say whether it does or doesn't reqire PP. We are not from your local authority planning dept, nor do we sit on the planning committee.

No offence, but I deal with this type of question every day in my professional job. This is a clear case and it is perfectly possible to say that this extension needs planning permission - the extension faces towards a public footpath, therefore it requires permission, irrespective of its location in the country, its size, design, etc. This is national legislation (the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995, as amended in 2008), so it is irrelevant what an individual planning authority's policies are, or what any Planning Committee think.

planning_officer

misskool wrote: »

Applying for PP costs money. If I were to do a 'proper' extension then I would consider it. But I'd not pay the money just to put up a lean-to.

Would only be £150 to apply and you could probably do the plans yourself, or get an architectural technician to do them (much cheaper than an architect).