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Planning tips for dome buildersRead up on planning policy When it comes to asking for planning permission, ignorance is your biggest enemy, go to your local planning department and find out everything you can about local planning policy, recently passed developments and future government policy. Look at the planning history of the site you wish to develop and find out if your site is green belt, brown belt or any other belt. Find out what your permitted development rights are because you may not even need planning permission. Give them what they want This may seem odd but lets take a lesson from sir Christopher Wren, he had to present a scheme to rebuild London after the great fire, the centre of which was his vision for st Paul’s cathedral but the church didn’t like his design “it has no spire” so Wren added a spire and many other changes that were suggested until they were happy. He then went to the king for approval, which he dually got including a right as Surveyor General to make small changes during the construction phase. He built his original design; by the time anyone noticed it was too late to do anything about it. You can do something similar with the planning amendment system but when you apply for your amendments make sure the planner who passed your original drawing is on holiday. Give as little information as possible Information is power, don’t tell the council anything you don’t have to, put the bare minimum of detail in your plans or put so much information that it becomes difficult to understand. Don’t invite them to the site because they can take pictures of existing buildings giving you no option of saying it was already there when you bought the place. Plant trees around your boundary so nosey people can’t see what your doing. Don’t take no for an answer Just because they say no doesn’t mean you have to forget about your project, study the reasons why then reapply if you address the reasons why they refused permission you should have a good chance at getting it on a second, third or even fourth attempt. Keep at them until they’re sick of you. Be polite Never loose your temper; call anyone in the planning department an idiot or start shouting in a planning meeting, it won’t help. Smile then tell them you understand their point of view and will try to address any issues that arise from your application. Make voodoo dolls of all the planners who don’t support your application and stick needles in them when you get home. If anyone knows of any planning loopholes or any other useful information that could be of help, leave a message below. Cheers |
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| posted by gravitonium | 24/06/2007 13:24:47 |
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| it's an interesting subject. i came up with few remedies so far. if your local permissions dept. is not letting you build the only way out is to build anyway, then pay the fine (it might me even less than the story with the approval), build it in rustic (farm land) as a barn (do not claim it as a home), or build it as the ttemporary structure (or say - you aare), and finally keep it as an unfinished structure. In all of these cases you would not get the title or the papers sertifying it's real estate. | |
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