Planning permission

maisiegirl

My buyers solicitor has asked for 2 planning permissions and building regs one is dated april 95 and the other may 96.
The house was newly built by Wimpey and finished feb 99.
Should I have copies of the pp and how do I get copies?
I have a copy of an ammendment dated feb 98 that covers this house but the solicitor mentioned some insurance.

Victoria_Falls

Planning Permission copies can be obtained from the local council. If you have your planning application numbers, the easiest way is to ring first and then pop down to council. There is usually a charge for copies. Depending on what council it is, there is sometimes access via the councils website that you can look up the planning permissions you require.

Debt_Free_Chick

maisiegirl wrote:

My buyers solicitor has asked for 2 planning permissions and building regs one is dated april 95 and the other may 96.
The house was newly built by Wimpey and finished feb 99.

This is getting ridiculous - what are these solicitors on? :mad:

If I read your post correctly, nothing existed before Feb 1999 when a new-build was completed, right? It looks like the buyer's solicitor wants the PP granted to Wimpey for the whole estate! Unless this really is a one-off property, then your particular house won't have its own PP - it will be part of the estate, built at the time.

I'll guess that the 1995 planning permission was Outline and the 1996 one was Full. Developers usually apply for Outline first as, if that's knocked back, they know what changes to make and whether or not another, modified, application is likely to succeed.

But ... provide PP for an estate of properties? Jeez :mad:

Anyway, yes the Local Planning Authority will usually provide a copy, but you may have to pay for it. Perhaps your LPA has archived planning decisions available to download from the website (mine certainly does, but many others don't).

HTH

clutton_2

tell them to go and do one ! as D__F_C says - utterly ridiculous