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The submitted plan does not contain more evidence that those I have already given. Moreover they can contain confidential information

However in my case the deviation is very important. What this owner did is to remove the entrance of the stairs to the upper floors which were in the corridor in the ground floor and put it in inside the garage

In the submitted plan it is shown that on the ground floor there was a corridor with at the left the entrance of a new flat, at the right the entrance of the garage and in the front the entrance of the stairs which gave access to another flat in the upper floors. It was possible to access the...

I would like to add that in order to transform a garage into a living space no development like the installation of fixtures like a bathroom or a kitchen is necessary. Hence the only development which is necessary to make this garage suitable to be used as an additional room is to create an...

Obviously it will depend of the importance of the difference and if it is only a difference of some centimetres or if it involves a lot of additional work. Moreover it depend also if it concerns a garage protected by a planning condition. However as a matter of laws ‘in complete accordance’...

I found the following in the Internet “(In the interest of fire safety, if there is a door between a garage and the dwelling it should have 30 minutes fire resistance and be self closing. This opening must incorporate a step up of at least 100mm between garage and dwelling floor” Maybe...

I do not remember how many posts I have made about this issue and I do not remember when I started the conversation. When we are passionate we do not count However in my penultimate post the following paragraph raises a new issue 4. The owner of this property got a planning permission...

I am helping a friend. Moreover I am a passionate of planning issues

In my last post the following paragraph raises a new issue 4. The owner of this property got a planning permission to build a one-bedroom flat in the ground floor with the loss of one of his two garages. One planning condition to which I already referred attached to this planning...

I would like to add the following 1 To convert a garage into a living space is permitted development rights. However the consequence of this planning condition which says that the garage should be kept at all times for garage use is that this garage has lost these permitted development...

The owner of property can make an application for a lawful development certificate to be sure that his property that was a block of flats is now considered by the planning development as a single dwelling house giving him right to permitted development rights. I have read that when an...

An owner of a property which was a dwellinghouse and which has its the Council Tax Band deleted because it has been considered by the VOA as inhabitable can make an application for a lawful development certificate to be sure that his property has still permitted development rights which apply...

This previous thread was about whether or not a property could be a single dwelling house if it is necessary to go first through the garage to access the upper floors. However my new thread is about whether or not the planning department should have disclosed this information to the planning...

Yes but the problem is that when the planning department gave planning permission it was not aware that there will be a door between the garage and the living parts of the house because this door was not in the proposed floor plan. And if it would have known it could have refused planning...

A garage has a restrictive planning condition imposed on it which says it should be kept available at all times for garage use. In the proposed plan it was indicated that there is no access from the garage to the other parties of the house. However this garage has not been developed...

The important point is that what matter is not what the property is but how it is used and if it is used as a single dwelling house. However if the Council Tax Band is deleted officially for the Royal Mail this address does not exist and it has no obligation to deliver any mails at this address...

I think that Council Tax should be paid for the period the Council Tax Band as not yet been deleted and should not be paid for the period it has been deleted. And they have to pay again Council tax when the status of their property change and the Council Tax Band is put back. It is why some...

I would like to add that it could not be non habitable dwelling for the purposes of collecting Council Tax if the Council tax Band has been deleted because it if it has been deleted no council Tax could be collected

Properties which undergo repairs or work for which maybe kitchen or bathroom should be removed temporary have to pay Council Tax before April 2013 it was 25% but after this date I think that there has been a change in law and it is now 100% The government loses a lot of money if Council Tax...

This means that there is no official definition of a “dwellinghouse”. I have looked and I have not found it. However if you know one and in this case I would be grateful to you if you pass it to me Hence a dwellinghouse is a building which contains the necessary facilities so that people are...