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"The Little Known Facts You Should Know
About Planning Permission"

 

From:
Antony Hunt

 

Here's some useful information for you along with a great contact I know should you need any first class advice on planning matters.

 

I don't know whether it's ever crossed your mind, but the majority of people I speak to regarding our temporary storage facilities often have a concern regarding planning permission - at the outset.

 

I know it's a tedious subject, but as you can imagine, in dealing with this on a daily basis, it's a subject I've learned quite a bit about over time.

 

So, on that basis, I thought you might be interested to learn a bit more about how things stand ~ usually:

 

Why usually? You see, your own local planning officer can, and often
will interpret the law depending upon your own location and the surrounding area.

 

What's more, the duration of the hire period does have an impact on their decision and unfortunately, there's no real hard and fast rule in their decisions, IT'S A VERY GREY AREA.

 

That said though, there are guidelines which are followed, but generally, in fact most often, the planning office will look at your case sympathetically IF YOU ARE HONEST WITH THEM.

 

To give you an example, if you want the "Smart-Space Instant Building" for three, six or nine months, they will almost always grant you permission without any problems at all.

 

After all, your requirement for more space normally means increased business, maybe more employment, and the councils are encouraged to help in any way they can - not stand in your way!

 

That said though, if you tell them you want to install a storagemarquee for three months, when you know from the outset that your requirement is for 12 months, you could quite possible land yourself in hot water.

 

Quite frankly, the way the system works, if you were to have a "Smart-Space Instant Building" installed, and NOT inform the planning department beforehand, you could conceivably have it in place for nine or so months before they could finally enforce an enforcement notice, but that's really not the best way forward.

 

If you go down that route though, you are going to have all kinds of daily hassle and potential law suits,(rather like the travelling community)which, can easily be avoided by being up front and honest from the outset.

 

The best way surely then, is to call the local authority and tell them your plan and anticipated time frame. You'll most likely find that they will be sympathetic and help you as much as they can.

 

The only downside to this approach is that the committees meet generally every six to eight weeks, so it's good to plan ahead.

 

Failing that, if it's an emergency, you can always proceed and have your "Smart-Space Instant Building" installed and apply for retrospective permission, again, as long as you tell them you've got one and the period of time you have in mind.

 

So there it is, are you any clearer now than five minutes ago? I hope so.

 

Yours for instant "Problem free" space

 

Regards

Antony Hunt
Managing Director

antony@smart-space.co.uk

 

PS -- Here's a great contact to have on your side if you do want professional advice with planning or indeed, a specialist to fight your corner with planning authorities in the event of having a rejection.

CT PLANNING CHARTERED TOWN PLANNERS
CHRISTOPHER TIMOTHY 01543 418779
EMAIL: ctimothy@ctplanning.co.uk
Website: www.ctplanning.co.uk