Hi,
Hope someone will help with a planning question please
...I can't find the answer on Google...
A local builder-developer likes to push planning permission to the limit (there is history x 3). The latest is his current work on a terraced house opposite, unlisted and not in a conservation area, but a nice row of 50's housing with identical brickwork and roof tiles. The developer has replaced the original terracotta pantile-style tiles with the flat grey plastic 'shed-roof' type. This looks bad enough but then he attached plastic grey 'weather-board' cladding to the first floor facade which is red brick, like the rest of the terrace. It is really ugly and serves no function either.
Is this permitted nowadays? I looked at our local authority's planning portal and found this under 'exterior walls':
"If you live in a Conservation Area, a National Park, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty or the Broads, you will need to apply for planning permission before cladding the outside of your house with stone, tiles, artificial stone, plastic or timber.
Outside these areas, cladding may be carried out without having to first apply for planning permission provided the materials are of a similar appearance to those used in the construction of the house.
Is he permitted do this given that the materials are at odds with the existing building and the rest of the terrace?
Thank you for reading...
Hope someone will help with a planning question please
...I can't find the answer on Google...A local builder-developer likes to push planning permission to the limit (there is history x 3). The latest is his current work on a terraced house opposite, unlisted and not in a conservation area, but a nice row of 50's housing with identical brickwork and roof tiles. The developer has replaced the original terracotta pantile-style tiles with the flat grey plastic 'shed-roof' type. This looks bad enough but then he attached plastic grey 'weather-board' cladding to the first floor facade which is red brick, like the rest of the terrace. It is really ugly and serves no function either.
Is this permitted nowadays? I looked at our local authority's planning portal and found this under 'exterior walls':
"If you live in a Conservation Area, a National Park, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty or the Broads, you will need to apply for planning permission before cladding the outside of your house with stone, tiles, artificial stone, plastic or timber.
Outside these areas, cladding may be carried out without having to first apply for planning permission provided the materials are of a similar appearance to those used in the construction of the house.
Is he permitted do this given that the materials are at odds with the existing building and the rest of the terrace?
Thank you for reading...
