Does the 50% rule for extensions under PD include the original house?

[JamesHopeful]

Just use a service which is set up for this purpose, such as Mail Boxes Etc....

[JamesHopeful]

I've just managed to answer my own question by referring to the excellent Planning Geek website: https://www.planninggeek.co.uk/gpdo/...se/extensions/

I was right!...

[JamesHopeful]

My question is per the title.

I always thought that the rule was you could (subject to complying with other requirements and maximums) build on up to 50% of the land surrounding your house. However, someone told me today that the rule is that you can only build on up to 50% of the total...

[JamesHopeful]

Thank you for the thoughts, everyone....

[JamesHopeful]

I've seen a number of references on this forum to new EPC methodology coming in later this year, but despite googling it I can't seem to find a date. Does anyone know exactly when the new methodology will go live?

[JamesHopeful]

I've been thinking a bit further about how this might, in reality, work (assuming that it does actually get implemented as proposed).

Most of the time, the group of students will give their two months' notice at some point in the summer term, for the tenancy to end shortly after the end...

[JamesHopeful]

AndrewDod, jpkeates

My apologies. I hadn’t see the Government response at the point I posted the message above (for others’ reference, it can be found at A new deal for renting: government response - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk))


Do you have the source for this? According to...

[JamesHopeful]

If you get C4 planning use class, as far as the planning permission is concerned you are allowed up to six occupants. If the house only has (say) three bedrooms you might state on the change of use application that it'll only have three occupants (or else they might turn you down for overcrowding),...

[JamesHopeful]

Unless there's a very specific planning condition on your planning permission which prevents you from doing so (which is unlikely), you can go ahead and make the living room a bedroom at a later date (provided that you still meet HMO licensing standards).

[JamesHopeful]

I don't think the proposed new system removes the option for a minimum term, so student tenants can still be locked in for a year.

On the subject of student tenants wanting to "overstay" at the end, if you let to a pre-formed group of friends on a single AST then they would all...

[JamesHopeful]

If you don't mind my asking, is there any particular reason why you don't want to use a broker?...

[JamesHopeful]

That is my understanding too.

I believe it would technically be possible for an Article 4 direction to remove C4 to C3 permitted development rights as well as C3 to C4, but given that the whole reason why councils implement them is because they want fewer HMOs in a particular area this...

[JamesHopeful]

Very roughly, I understand that a bricks and mortar valuation relies on recent comparable sales, whereas an investment valuation relies on yield.

I have a quick question on how a bricks and mortar valuation works with HMOs in an Article 4 area: does the valuer only use sales of houses with...