PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT
Check the rights. Design to the limits. Put it on record.
Permitted development lets many houses extend, convert the loft or add an outbuilding without a full planning application. The rights are national, but the limits are detailed, they are measured against the original house rather than the one you see today, and they can be removed altogether.
Flats and maisonettes, newer estates with conditions on the original permission, and areas covered by an Article 4 direction all change what is allowed. The first job is to find out which rights the house actually has.
When the answer is yes, a lawful development certificate puts it on record. It is not compulsory, but it is the document a buyer's solicitor is likely to ask for when the house is sold.
WHAT WE OFFER?
Every service below states what the work covers and what you receive at the end of it.
RIGHTS CHECK
Planning history, previous extensions, conditions and Article 4 directions checked before any design work.
EXTENSIONS AND OUTBUILDINGS
Rear and side extensions, garden rooms and outbuildings designed to sit within the limits, including the prior approval route for larger single storey extensions.
LOFT CONVERSIONS AND ROOF ALTERATIONS
Dormers, hip to gable conversions and rooflights within the volume and design conditions for roof alterations.
LAWFUL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATES
For proposed work, confirmation from the council that it is lawful before you build. For work already done, a certificate for the existing development.
HOW IT WORKS?
Four stages, one team, no handover between firms.
- 01
CHECK
Planning history and any restrictions on the house reviewed.
- 02
DESIGN
The scheme drawn within the limits that apply.
- 03
CERTIFICATE
A lawful development certificate applied for where it helps.
- 04
TECHNICAL
The Building Regulations package prepared, because permitted development covers planning only.
WHY CHOOSE US?
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CHECK WHAT YOUR HOUSE CAN DO
Send us the address, and we can talk through which permitted development rights may apply.