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?


Probably I can.

Planning permission is worth getting, but developing yourself is NOT.

First of all find out what the status of your property is. If it is
inside a village boundary and they have a Plan, you must stick to that
plan. If they have no plan you may be able to do massicve thiongs
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One source of free advice is estate agents. Another is the duty planning
ossifer at the local council.

Both should know whether any possibility of development exists.

What is normal is extension +15% in ground area. What is profitable is
a new dwelling in a back garden.

If the possibilitry exists then get an architect to draw up plans and
submit them.

At all times work with the council, not against them.

Planning gets you far more upside than development.

Get full permissions as well. Outlien is a grey area.





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.

No I think you are spot on.



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