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[pilman]

That cannot be taken into account for an application for a Lawful Use Certificate.
The evidence of 4 years use as two separate dwellings is all that is needed, because it is not a planning application and does not need to comply with an planning requirements, as mentioned in posting #7....

[pilman]

That means exactly what it says. You do not own this access path but you can use it whoever it belongs to.

In many cases a builder set out these access paths to allow access to the back gardens of houses when coal deliveries were very important.

After selling of the houses...

[pilman]

After 4 years the change of use from a house to two flats became immune from enforcement by the local planning authority so that the current use is lawful.

An application for a Lawful Use Certificate will require a planning application although this is not a matter of gaining planning permission,...

[pilman]

When you contact the freeholder ask if you can have a license to use the land and locate a small bike storage shed on it, That may be something that can be settled quite quickly if you agree to pays a small sum of money for a licence.
Asking that this land be added to an existing Lease agreement...

[pilman]

Only if there is a prior agreement to link that back wall into the existing brickwork that belongs to each of the neighbours.

You may be able to persuade the neighbours to allow that to happen since their external wall will become an internal wall kept free of weather and will not need...

[pilman]

A garage is not a dwelling even though a single car would be driven to it.
It would seem that the width of the road would be the main factor when the LPA needs to consider a planning application of the type being described here.

There is also the question of a visibility splay should...

[pilman]

The obvious answer is that you can apply for planning permission for anything, but whether that would be granted is a separate question.

Some local planning authorities rely on advice from the Highways Department that a private road can only provide access for 5 dwellings, although planning...

[pilman]

That right should have been registered with Land Registry. Was it?...

[pilman]

The first thing to be established is whether there was a private sector home standard issued by the Council.
If there was to be one the most it can expect is that there is adequate sanitary provision and a number of rooms that can used for normal habitation such as bedroom, kitchen, sitting room...

[pilman]

The words used in the Town and Country Planning ( General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 need to be referred to in any appeal.
The main defence would be to claim that the fence is not erected or constructed adjacent to a highway used by vehicular traffic, because a footpath cannot...

[pilman]

Perhaps the firm of solicitors who drafted the approved form of the Deed of Covenant used by the Housing Association for the leasehold properties that it had previously sold to the sitting tenants, fall into that category.

This particular bloke who posts on the internet provided the document...

[pilman]

When buying a leasehold flat from a private seller who had entered into a covenant with the landlord, which was a Housing Association, the HA provided a draft covenant that would be acceptable to it once the correct names were entered in the section where they were needed.

This is copied...

[pilman]

Internal alterations that do not material affect the property do not need planning permission, nor does what you propose require building control if a stud wall is erected on the current concrete floor of the garage.

See Section 55(2) Town and Country Planning Act 1990...