What is the definition of a single planning unit

[colin68]

Extract from the Scottish Planning Enforcement circular 10/2009

'For the purposes of the 1997 Act, a
single, self-contained set of premises can properly be regarded as being in use as a
single dwellinghouse if it meets the following criteria:
• it comprises a unit of occupation, which can be regarded as a 'planning unit'
separate from any other part of a building containing it;
• it is designed or adapted for residential purposes, containing the facilities for
cooking, eating and sleeping normally associated with use as a
dwellinghouse;
• it is used as a permanent or temporary dwelling by a single person, or by
persons living together as, or like, a single family.

Can anyone define exactly what a planning unit is??

This planning stuff is crazy, there doesn't seem to be any rules, standards or common sense. It certainly isn't for normal mortals to dabble with.

 

[chapeau]

Google

Burdle vs Secretary of State for the Environment (SSE) [1972]

There are planning inspectorate decisions which help to explain

eg

www.4-5graysinnsquare.co.uk/uploads/docs/section9/PBDecision.pdf

Though you lot up there like to do things for yourself now so might have a different interpretation.

This planning stuff is crazy, there doesn't seem to be any rules, standards or common sense. It certainly isn't for normal mortals to dabble with.

Not really, but they would like you to think it is.

 

[^woody^]

A planning unit is a distinct part of a building or land used solely for one specific purpose

Say you have one big building which has a defined use under planning law. If you then divide the building into two, and start living in half of it as a proper home, and use the other half as a business workshop then potentially that is two planning units - a domestic part and a commercial part

But if you just use it all as a workshop and just sleep on a camp bed or something, then there is not really two distinct areas and so its still one planning unit - a commercial use