On 29/07/2018 20:04, TimW wrote:
On 28/07/18 22:56, John Rumm wrote:
On 27/07/2018 22:27, Chris Green wrote:
Are there special planning permission rules applying where one wants
to build a house for a fmaily member (child) on one's own land?Â* We
have a small-holding in an area where adding new houses is basically
not allowed but a few people have added houses for family members
and/or workers.

If you have existing agricultural buildings that are surplus to
requirements, you may be able to apply for change of use to housing
under the new rules. The small holding adjacent to use, has done that
recently and demolished an old industrial unit / workshop and replaced
it with a terrace of three houses.


There is some shockingly poorly drafted legislation which is being
exploited by wised up landowners recently which says that any old
useless tin shed from the 1980s can now be converted into a dwelling as
a 'barn conversion'.

TW

Many examples of this in the Horsham District.

Local Tomato grower has submitted plans for a new packaging 'shed'
with a storage for their forklift truck, but the plans for the
building have insulated cavity walls and floors and the 'entrance'
for the forklift assumes it will enter and leave fully extended.

And how covenient that design will be 5 years down the line when
they apply to turn their redundant farm building into a house complete
with full height glass entrance foyer.