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Thank you for your advise. 👍

Really surprised you have only had 14k views.. A very insight.. Thank you..

Pure professional approach from a serious amount of experience. On spot again my friend 💯

Great Video…..clear and straight

This is such a good sum up. I wish I had found you before. We have just sold my place and moving somewhere hoping in the future to build a small orangery

You definitely are very well versed in this field and the Planning area in the local authority seem to thrive on ambiguity. Your guidance makes the world of sense s thank you. What I can't find is, if a single story turn key dwelling requires planning permission as I've been advised you do not need permission to erect a single story up to 15 feet. Do you know if that is true in your experience?

Really useful … thank you

Great video - The only thing I would disagree with is contacting your local planning department at the beginning. In my view as a former planning officer, this is where a lot of people become unstuck. Any information you get from a planning department, especially informally can easily be found if you know where to look. Changing officers, context changes, or just straight changing of their minds all can create problems for people that rely on the planning department for advice. Do your due diligence, use the planning system for what you need it for and get out.

So pleased I watched this , I was worried about the pitfalls but thankfully I want to build a bungalow on my property and it passes all 4 criteria 👍

could you please do a video about the chance of getting planning permission on a flood zone area.

The only quite likely thing is to use "permitted development" rules, in England. But you need to get confirmation that what you are proposing is "permitted development". And one needs to check that there is no "article 4" rule in force for your area - a "no PD" order.

Hi, I liked ur video and hv subscribed. I hv a quick question. With a terraced house they hv a back addition (outrigger). With permitted development is it possible to build a side infill extension and a 3 metre extension at the back, not a wraparound. My garden is 5m x 75m.

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As a now retired architect I love your videos but you must surely admit that there are an awful lot of problems with the planning/building regs process, not least being that they do not follow the iterative and developmental nature of the design process. Having planners who do not understand design and want everything to copy what is around your site however awful, and Building Control officers who do not know some pretty basic things about construction does not help either. We desperately need a more joined up development process, better informed approvals people and above all else planning policy which is accessible and well defined. It is possible.

We told our neighbours that we were applying to build our own house and took the drawings to show them. They still objected giving them extra time to come up with a more robust objection, and tried to collaborate together to stop us from being granted permission 🤷‍♂️

So useful to know. My neighbour is planning an extension, which will definitely block the afternoon sunlight in my garden, which already has a very limited sunlight exposure. I don't want to be a stick in the mud as we are on good terms, but I worry a bit that this will affect my mood (working mostly from home) and my tomatoes will struggle to grow ;-)

My application for planning - commercial space (shop) to residential (studio flat) was refused because it lacked storage space for bike and bin. Can you believe that. The other one was noise levels - they said I need to do a noise level test. Not sure if the noise was to the neighbour or from the street.

Hi there, thank you for the awesome video! I have liked and subscribed to your channel. Could you help with advice on getting planning to build a house in a conservation area? We are hoping to have an offer accepted on a house which we want to rebuild a large attached barn to the main house into another house with 4 rooms.. 😅 to have communal living with relatives.

Hi. I'm a junior arch draftsman. I'm currently studying at birkbeck and would like a job as a junior draftsman. Are there any vacancies? I don't mind working on contract.

Also, a question - does a permitted development mean that I don't need to submit any papers, involve a structural engineer, etc? What is the process for a simple straightforward permitted development, vs. a full on application? Perhaps a good idea for a next video to explain? x

Are you able to look at my planning refusal and determine if i have a shot at another application? If you think you can get it approved you are hired :)

I worked my ass off to get away from the 12 square meters room , for what ? They don't give me a permit , it just stalls and stalls while others near my land build their homes. They just said there is a little problem... asked what kind of problem the guy who planned and designed the house digitally doesn't say anything. If anyone can explain what are the possible reasons of stalling the whole process I would really appreciate it. Could it be some political stuff like to force me to buy something that's already built , because in my city there is insane amounts of new apartment buildings rising while the population is pretty much the same since 15 years ago.

This guy knows what’s he talking about…

You forgot to mention those little brown envelopes everywhere.

The neighbours have more rights than you

Try this for size. 60 acre farm in Devon. Apllied for a barn to comply with organic rules on housing animals in bad weather. Permitted developement refused. Planning authority want a full planning application. The top soil resighting on the adjacent field will require planning permission because it changes the contour of the field. Then there is now the Bio-Diversity net gains, A thoroughly biased plan against land owners. I have asked how the local new house building on 120 acres of grade one food production land can provide a benefit over and above the benefit of 120 acres of grass, hedgerows and woodland. No answers. As these authorities grab more power our country will dive into a resetion never seen before, then and only then will we be able to take back control and freedom that have been removed. As we only produce 60% of our food you would have thought the government would bend over backwards to help you increase your product, especially organic farmers.

Sir can I get your contact details I need guidance urgently

It's not politics, it's polatricks!