Planning permission from 1969

ProDave

Generally if the development has "started" there is no time limit to complete it unless they issue a winding up notice (might not be the correct term)  I could point you to several sites around here where the foundations and slab have been built and that has now been left for years.

But if the work done 50 years ago now bears little relationship to the plans I doubt that argument holds.

Unless planning policy has changed, if it was granted permission in 1969 what makes you think it would not get permission again?  The plot we just built out house on had planning in 1980 for a house but no work was done. It was a quick formality to get planning re granted just before we bought it.

diystarter7

pinkshoes said:

jolester said:

pinkshoes said:

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Planning permissions usually last for a few years (3?) and building work has to commence within that time period. After that you would have to reapply for planning permission. 

If it is now an established wood then it is highly unlikely that planning permission would be granted again.

Hi

I believe back them the work had to start within 5 years.  The executor is claiming from childhood memory that "work did start in the early 1970's" But I'm also led to believe that planning permission could expire if not completed back then, unlike the current planning laws?

The law changed in 1968 where they had 5 years to start the work, that later became 3 years in 2009.

"starting work" is apparently something that has seen man contested cases taken to court. So it will come down to what work was started and is this sufficient work for it to have been deemed that the planning permission was used and was going ahead. 

So what work are they claiming was done?

See here: https://urbanistarchitecture.co.uk/how-long-does-planning-permission-last/

From the link:

These are the actions – ‘material operations’ – listed in the amended version of the  Town And Country Planning Act 1990 that demonstrate the beginning of work (often referred to as ‘commencement of development’) on a site:

• any work of construction in the course of the erection of a building;
• any work of demolition of a building; 
• the digging of a trench which is to contain the foundations, or part of the foundations, of a building;
• the laying of any underground main or pipe to the foundations, or part of the foundations, of a building or to any such trench;
• any operation in the course of laying out or constructing a road or part of a road;
• any change in the use of any land which constitutes material development.

Hi

Many thanks for the very helpful and informative post,
Easy to read and digest and extremely helpful

Thanks