Is C4 to 7 Person HMO a Material Change of Use?
Change of use from C4 to Sui Generis is a very common planning application that is submitted to the LPA’s in a […]
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Goodbye Class G – Hello Super G….but there is a catch! – Updated October 2021
The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development etc.) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2021 (snappy title!) was laid before parliament on […]
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Are HMO’s now supported within the National Framework?
Back in 2012 the NPPF included an important paragraph. To deliver a wide choice of high quality homes, widen opportunities for homeownership […]
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Decision Making Behaviour
It is fair to say that planning authorities in England have their favourite forms of development and in equal measure those developments […]
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Class MA – Thoughts on the Starting Line!
On the 1st August 2021 the starting gun is fired and Class MA becomes available to applicants as an application type. Class […]
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Milton Keynes cannot keep up….apparently
So the story goes like this. Four applications for prior approval were submitted on the same day on the same site and […]
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The National Standards and Permitted Development
Its the 7th April and the National Standards and Prior Approval applications are now permanently conjoined. From yesterday the 6th of April […]
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Shell Applications
The term ‘Shell Application’ was given to me by Chris Dale, the then Head of Development Management at Woking Borough Council and […]
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Flexible Permissions
Do you have an asset that’s proving difficult to let? Would you just like to maximise marketability? A “flexible” or “dual-use” planning […]
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