How much do planning appeals cost, are they worth it?

Counting_Pennies_2

I wonder if you can help, we have discovered we have been unsuccessful in our planning application.

My husband is keen to go to appeal, but I am not sure how much it will cost and if there is any point, does the inspector do anything other than ensure the council stuck to their policy?

We don't meet the Council's policy in three areas.

The bulk of the structure, breaching the roof ridge tile (increasing height by 300mm) the application being out of proportion for the size of our property.

My husband is keen to go to appeal as our neighbour has already achieved this same application through permitted development. (We have had to go to planning because our house was built one tile shorter than the other houses in our road.)

We are unable to alter the application to make it smaller, or more acceptable due to the head height of the roof, we have had architects and builders all have all said this is the only option.

Many thanks

Counting_Pennies_2

I wonder also if anyone has been successful in a planning appeal

Plasterer

Counting_Pennies wrote: »

I wonder also if anyone has been successful in a planning appeal

depends how much moola you have, for example a shop near where I live is now going out of business because of Tesco. Tesco could'nt build a garage/shop opposite the shop in question and got refused time and time again - until they took it to the high court and got it granted (seriousd barrister money time) So yeah, some people are successfull in there appeal.
Regards
P

CashisKing

An appeal doesn't actually cost anything.
If you want solicitors/barristers and planning consultants then that is where the cost is.

I would reccomend looking up the book "The Planning Game" by Ken Djilksman (not sure about the spelling of the surname)

Waterlily24

We appealled when our planning permission wasn't granted and we lost. We employed someone to deal with it for us and it cost £1500 it would have been double if the plans had been passed. This was three years ago. The chap who dealt with the appeal for us submitted a very thick file to them.

iamcornholio

If you have contravene local development policy, then you wont win on appeal. You can't use the neighbours work as justification for your own similar proposal

Your appeal must be based on the council wrongfully applying, or misinterpreting their own policy - and not the fact that you don't agree with their policy or decision. But you can appeal on subjective reasoning such as the classic "incongruous and bulky" statement which is the backbone for many refusals.

There is no cost for written appeals, and you do not have to engage anyone to do this for you if you can explain why the councils decision is wrong. IIRC, about 1/3 of appeals are successful

Options are to build what you can under permitted development, and then just apply for any contentious parts

Yorkie1

Will you please stop spamming this forum.

SplanK

did they give you a reason as to why the application was turned down?

nickj_2

planning depts are a law unto themselves - the job i'm doing at the moment is painting a huge wooden conservatory , my customer did want upvc but was told by planning that because his 1960's bungalow is in a conservatoin area it had to made of wood , even though it is only visible from the air , it cannot be seen from the road or from neighbouring houses , and yet a few doors up the road there has been an " eco house" which looks like something you would find on an industrial estate , it doesn't fit in with any houses and just to add insult to injury , it's painted in battleship grey , .... so my advice is to add a few eco 's into your plans and you might be lucky