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Here are a selection of questions that Granny Ann gets asked the most. You can use the filter below to select your subject.
Ensure the annexe is not located too far from the main house:
– The annexe is not too big and remains subservient to the main house
– The level of facilities contained within the annexe are basic to ensure it remains ancillary
– The annexe is located in an area of your garden that won’t negatively impact neighbour privacy and amenity
– Make sure the design and materials used are in keeping with the surrounding vernacular
Yes! As soon as you introduce sleeping accommodation into your garden room proposal, it
no longer benefits from Class E permitted development.
Home Gyms, Cinema’s, Home Offices or Work spaces ultise permitted development rights,
so therefore do not require planning but an annexe is different.
Well whys that? This is due to the fact it’s no longer considered incidental, one of the
requirements for PD, it is now ancillary.
The answer is 2.5metres!
Application fees will vary depending on what you’re applying for. In most of our cases, this would be
either an annexe or mobile home application.
For an annexe, the fee would be £238.20 and the fee for a mobile home would be £135.20. These
are both including the planning portal surcharge.
It would be the applicant’s responsibility to pay this directly to their Local Planning Authority.
Usually the planning application process will take 8-10 weeks from the validation period.
We’ve written a step by step guide on how your application will progress below, but in short these
are the steps taken to reach a decision.
1. Pre- Application
2. Application and Submission
3. Validation
4. Consultation and Publicity
5. Site Visit
6. Consideration of Application
7. Recommendation
8. Decision
Between Weeks 1-3 – Your LPA will write to the statutory consultees to ensure they’re aware of the
proposed plans.
This could be the parish council, neighbours, highways and water agency and ward councilors.
They will then have 21 days from validation to submit any comments.
Between Weeks 4-8 a case officer from your Local Planning Authority will look after your case up to
the target decision date. This will be at the end of the 8 weeks and usually during this time a site visit
will be conducted.
https://napc.uk/app/uploads/2022/03/new-Application-Process.pdf
Depending on the way that an Annexe is built, it’s constructed with the idea that it won’t be
moved unless absolutely necessary and moving it may result in damage.
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