If its permitted development, why do planning application.
There is another route, where,if your unsure, you can apply for a certificate of licence. If issued then the council can't come back on you later. Look on your local council planning, or the planning portal.
But I would be wary of just using permitted development rules.
I checked the national planning portal for permited development of an integral garage at home. Yep, that's well inside the rules.
So as advised I checked for any article 4 exemptions that the local council can apply to an area.
We are outside of any article 4 declarations in my area. Check the Tree Preservation order register, just to be sure, no problems.
So started putting things in place to start, but doing prep work myself, I requested appointments for the building inspector, as its still needed, even for permitted development.
Just as well, got message that permitted development withdrawn from this area.
I challenged the ruling as no article 4 notice applications for this area.
They then quoted back the allowed development was removed when the estate was built in 1995.
I challenged it, as the implication of the newly implemented permitted developments right, over rule this.
But further to and fro the council won't budge.
It will cost me legal fees to challenge it, money i dont have.
Now the kicker is that out of 99 homes on the estate, about 17 have had this conversation done.
Of the 5 I know personally, they all went ahead under permitted development rules.
Now the problem is, when they come to sell, it will be flagged as unlawfully development, so will have to try for retrospective planning permission. Which is unlikely to be given, as if it was, then the likes of people in my situation will then be able to take legal action as a class suit, at minimal cost, but massive implications to council.
So please ignore any layperson advice on permitted development and check first with your local council planning office.
As after all the media hype about permitted development allowing people to invest in home expansion, without the onerous cost and process of planning permission,and associated possible objections, you would think it easy to do.
But if you read all the information on the national planning portal,right down near the bottom it actually says, "...you must check with your local council before works begin..."
So that little caveat, not widely known or reported, could actually scupper any work, pre, during or post completion.