Presidence

A couple, well three, of questions on 'presidence already been set'.

Can presidence be set by a change to a building where Planning Permission was not requested, but PP was required?

If over 25% of the buildings in the area have the same change, without PP has presidence been set?

Can PP be refused if the above presidence has been set (without PP) for another building when requesting PP?

I think the answers are: NO, NO, and YES, but not sure.

Presumably you mean precedent

There is no precedence in planning. Just because certain development has been allowed or not enforced against, does mean that further similar development gains a presumption of automatic approval.

It may be that existing similar development gives more weight to why a new application should be approved, or it may be that the council does not want to make a bad situation even worse by continuing to allow poor development

Each application should be judged in its merits and against the local planning policy - not on what has gone previously