Your Home and Planning Permission

Contents

• Introduction

Section 1

• Building an Extension

Section 2

• Alterations and Additions
  • Porches
  • Conservatories
  • Granny flats
  • Converting a house into flats or apartments
  • Home working purposes (also see Section 11)
  • Demolition

Section 3

• Extensions Consisting of an Addition or Alteration to a Roof
  • Roof lights, dormers or other roof extensions
  • Roof space conversion
  • Re-roofing a house

Section 4

• Building a garage, carport, garden shed, greenhouse or other building
  • Creation/replacement of a hard surface for a vehicle
  • Access to a road

Section 5

• Decking, Walls and Fencing
  • Walls and Fences
  • Decking and raised platforms

Section 6

• Repairs and Maintenance
  • General improvements and repairs to a house
  • Internal alterations to a house
  • Changing exterior doors or windows
  • Painting or cladding the exterior of your house

Section 7

• Other Minor Works
  • Oil or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) containers
  • Chimneys, flues or soil and vent pipes
  • TV aerials
  • Radio masts
  • Microwave antennae (includes satellite dishes)
  • Closed Circuit Television Cameras (CCTV)
  • A caravan, motorhome or boat in a garden or driveway

Section 8

• Solar Panels
  • Roof mounted solar panels on a pitched roof
  • Roof mounted solar panels on a flat roof
  • Wall mounted solar panels
  • Free standing solar equipment

Section 9

• Domestic Biomass and Heat Pumps
  • Containers for storing biomass fuel
  • A flue for a biomass or combined heat and power heating system
  • A ground or water source heat pump
  • An air source heat pump

Section 10

• Trees

Section 11

• Homeworking

Section 12

• Making Your Householder Application
  • Application forms and fees, planning publications to help you, and the decision-making process

Section 13

• Things to Check
  • Legal position, planning history, traffic safety, listed buildings and conservation areas, and historic monuments

Section 14

• Other Approvals You May Require
  • Building Regulations, Development affecting roads, Water Fittings
  • Regulations, and Wastewater Disposal

Section 15

• Enforcement

Section 16

• Contacting the Council’s Planning Department
• Glossary (available in downloadable document)