Planning application in the name of a diseased person

serdiboy

Thanks I have informed the planning department and all they can say is that they shall look into it. The land registry website still shows the deceased person as the legal owner. I wonder if there is a probate process going on or not ? I am not sure if its being carried out by the executors of the will either

PBA

It may just be down to the council's database, if the field for the applicant only accepts title firstname lastname then the applicant may be executors for Mr xxxx (deceased), but the database only lets them put in Mr xxxx. I don't see what benefit any applicant would expect to gain by trying to disguise their application as being put in by the deceased chap, they'd only draw extra attention to themselves as soon as it got noticed.

Debt_Free_Chick

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

The original application has to be valid before permission is granted/refused and I don't think this one is (see my post above).

But providing correct procedures are followed a valid application can still be made.

My local planning authority certainly has no process to verify the identify of applicants. Neither does it have a process to verify that a valid notice has been given to the landowner (section 28 notice???)

But once the PP has been granted, I am told (as a Parish Council Clerk) that it cannot be revoked, simply because the applicant's name/identity was not valid. We've had precisely this situation, although different circumstances, in the Parish in recent years.

In this case, I rather suspect the executor has made the application, but that the property is still in the name of the deceased.

Which leads me on to another point ..... of course, ownership will still be in the name of the deceased, at the Land Registry - AFAIK there is no requirement to re-register ownership in the name of the executors ....