A Guide To Planning Permission From ERG
They know planning laws like the back of their hand and will communicate all their knowledge of them so that you’re familiarised with the guidelines that must be followed.
Ignoring planning rules, knowingly or innocently, can result in a world of headaches, as anybody who has run into trouble with their local authority over an illegal structure will tell you. Selling your property might not be easy and your local authority could well enforce you to have the structure modified, or worse, knocked to the ground!
Work with ERG and everything to do with planning permission will be diligently organised by us for you.
Does a conservatory need planning permission?
It doesn’t when a proposed conservatory design fulfils the limits and conditions to enjoy the status of a Permitted Development.
Single-storey extensions with Permitted Development Rights remove the requirement for an application for planning permission to be submitted.
Our planning permission page lists what these limits and conditions are.
How about porches, are they subject to planning permission?
A different group of guidelines must be met for a front, back or side porch to be ruled as a permitted development.
There are not quite as many limits and conditions as there are for conservatories and here they are in full:
- its footprint (the total floor area it takes up) is no greater than 3 square metres
- there’s at least 2 metres between the edge of the porch and any boundary facing a road
- it isn’t taller than 3 metres
- it isn’t within a conservation area
What does the planning process involve?
Applications for planning permission can be made and submitted online via ePlanning Scotland. If you go to mygov.scot and select your local council, you will be transferred to the planning section of their website, where there are lots of useful resources too.
The fee calculator on ePlanning Scotland will confirm how much a planning application will cost you.
Upon receipt of the planning application, the planning authority will publish details of your application on their website and notify your closest neighbours of it so that they have an opportunity to raise any legitimate objections. It will normally take two months for an application to be decided, but it can be closer to four months for larger, complex projects.
In April 2023, the Scottish government said that around 95 per cent of planning applications made in Scotland are accepted and it makes your life so much easier when ERG takes responsibility for sorting it.
Much of these details are written about in our Planning Permission guide, in which we also advise of the possible need to obtain a building warrant for conservatories.
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