On 05/12/16 18:24, Tim Watts wrote:
On 05/12/16 18:21, Tim Watts wrote:
On 05/12/16 18:06, Andy Burns wrote:
Tim Watts wrote:

If only our PP officers were available for 15 minute ad hoc queries...

Don't they have it on their price list as "pre-application advice"?


Last I saw, they would only take written questions and then they charged
you - so you can't even pay for a bod's time for 15 minutes.

Just checked:

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Please note that we are no longer able to offer an informal advice
service as to whether planning permission would or would not be required
for your proposal.

For a formal decision as to whether planning permission is required for
your proposal you will need to submit an application for a Certificate
of Lawful Development - Proposed.
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And that costs £172!!! Robbing *******s.

And then you are probably tied to a specific plan. I want to know what
my options are. If you saw a bloke, he'd say "that'll need PP, but if
you put it 1m back/behind the elevation/less high it wouldn't".

I wouldn't bother if it was something trivial and easily undone - but I
don't fancy filling in 3-4 skips worth of hole in the marginal chance
they don't like it.