Your Project
The first thing to consider when you have decided that you wish to design and build an extension or porch, convert your loft, build an outbuilding or add a conservatory for your home, is whether your ideas for the project would fall under the Permitted Development limits and conditions.The Permitted Development Rights, and technical guidance documents (available in the useful info section on our website) are highly complex and are at times unclear and very difficult to understand.
That's why at homextend, we have produced the homextend permitted development guidance (free in the useful info section of our website), in order to clearly explain your rights so that we can help you decide if your project within the limitations of Permitted Development is right for you.
The advantages of Permitted Development are primarily:
- No Planning Application fees to the Local Authority.
- Saves time – Planning approval takes at least 8 weeks.
- Greatly reduced Architects and other industry professionals fees.
- Projects under Permitted Development are objective - that means once homextend has found out you can develop under Permitted Development (and most properties can), nobody can have a say in your project, not your neighbours and even not the Local Authority. Projects under Permitted Development are completely legal, and homextend can obtain a Certificate of Lawful Development to document this. This certificate along with the Building Regulations Completion Certificate will satisfy the requirements you now have to meet when selling your home in the future.
- If you wish, you can often start building almost straight away.
Buying & Selling Your Home
Understanding your developments rights can be critical when buying and selling your home. Understanding what and how your home can be transformed can greatly increase the value of your home when you come to sell it – or reduced an inflated valuation of a home you are looking to buy. They will give you a more accurate understanding of the true value of a house, whether you intend to develop or not.
That’s why at homextend, we can offer a homextend home development report to show you exactly what space you can add to your home, whether it be single or double, rear and side extensions, loft conversions, outbuildings, porches, or conservatories. We will carry out a digitally measured architectural survey of your home and from that produce diagrams and images indicating the type and size of the permitted developments. Provide area calculations so you can see exactly how much you can add to your home, and how it compares with your home as it is now. Produce curtilage, highways and public paths plans and how they may affect the developments. Obtain the full planning history of your property and identify its original state or its state on All in all, quite a complex and detailed document, and one that provides an essential tool for understanding the true value of a home when coming to buy or sell.