Affordable Self Build for a Young Person

tacpot12

I've no experience with this, but it sounds like you need agree with the landowner a price for the land if you arrange the planning permission AND a price they will pay you if they pull out of the sale after the planning permission has been granted.

You need a contract to purchase the property drawn up by a suitably experienced solicitor who can include the amount that the landowner will pay you for your work to secure planning permission.

davidmcn

tacpot12 wrote: »

it sounds like you need agree with the landowner a price for the land if you arrange the planning permission AND a price they will pay you if they pull out of the sale after the planning permission has been granted.

You don't agree a "price" for that, it would be breach of contract in the same way as any other vendor not fulfilling their side of the bargain. They wouldn't have a right to pull out.

Cakeguts

If the farmer had wanted to sell this piece of land with this cottage on it with planning permission don't you think he would have done it by now? The fact that he hasn't suggests that he knows that no one is going to get planning permission to build on there or even to repair what is there.

somethingcorporate

Cakeguts wrote: »

If the farmer had wanted to sell this piece of land with this cottage on it with planning permission don't you think he would have done it by now? The fact that he hasn't suggests that he knows that no one is going to get planning permission to build on there or even to repair what is there.

It' a very good point.

Doozergirl

Cakeguts wrote: »

If the farmer had wanted to sell this piece of land with this cottage on it with planning permission don't you think he would have done it by now? The fact that he hasn't suggests that he knows that no one is going to get planning permission to build on there or even to repair what is there.

You know, it does happen. Davesnave makes a good point about a relaxing of planning laws in the countryside. There's no doubt that it takes tenacity, but sometimes people manage to get farmers to sell things and they manage to get planning permission.

Most people don't even try because they make broad assumptions like yours.

Davesnave

Doozergirl wrote: »

There's no doubt that it takes tenacity, but sometimes people manage to get farmers to sell things and they manage to get planning permission.

Yes, sometimes...


Can't remember exactly when now, but it was some time in the 1990s when I accompanied my brother in law on a visit to a empty and somewhat dilapidated cottage on Mendip farm land. The farmer, who was then in his 80s, seemed very pleased to show us around, but afterwards, all attempts to strike up a conversation over price were frustrated.


We passed the cottage a couple of months ago. It's still empty; just a little worse for wear, with the odd tile missing.

(BiL has since self-built using an old barn as a basis.)

jamesperrett

Cakeguts wrote: »

If the farmer had wanted to sell this piece of land with this cottage on it with planning permission don't you think he would have done it by now? The fact that he hasn't suggests that he knows that no one is going to get planning permission to build on there or even to repair what is there.

Section Q that Davesnave mentions is fairly new (2014 I think). It is possible that the owner doesn't yet know about the potential it offers.

Davesnave

Section Q is very specific to redundant agricultural barns, so it could not be applied to a cottage. However, its existence demonstrates a shift in attitude at government level towards the re-use/re-purposing of buildings in the countryside.


Different local authorities have applied it with varying amounts of enthusiasm; hence I believe additional guidelines have been issued.

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Have you tried a self build forum?