On 17/02/2019 12:58, Mike Halmarack wrote:
My wife and I are 2 thirds of a trio living in a dilapidated cottage
with a large garden.
We're all around retirement age and have decided we want to sell up
and get minimal apartments designed for post retirees.
Our children and grandchildren are living in Canada, so we'd also like
to have the wherewithal to continue visiting them for as long as we're
able.

Short of doing any demolishing and rebuilding of the property myself,
I'd like to maximise the financial benefits of this project by taking
such things as planning permission applications as far as I can before
any heavy lifting starts.

Though it will be necessary to engage some professional help in
achieving this. I'd like to avoid the mistake of employing more
experts than are necessary to this end.

Can the good people of the newsgroup please suggest the type of
professional expert I should approach to most effectively cover our
needs in this endeavour?

I realise that there may be more appropriate newsgroups than this for
my question but uk.d-i-y has been pretty central to my past interests
and I have a lot of respect for the general expertise of it's members.
So, TIA.


For planning, I suggest visiting the local planning department and their
web site. I would expect there to be a local plan document which
outlines what is possible. I would expect the planning department to
know about any planning consultants who would be willing to help you for
a fee.

Getting planning permission is step one and should be completed before
any demolition work.

--
Michael Chare