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How to Get Planning Permission gives you all the information you will need on planning permission and using the planning system effectively. With over 80 illustrations, tables and examples, this book tells you:
- How to dramatically increase your chances of success - before your application is even submitted
- When to make full or outline applications
- How to complete application forms and notices to your best advantage
- 9 essential points for writing a supporting letter and 8 common mistakes to avoid
- What you must include in application plans and drawings
- 8 steps to help your proposal through the application process successfully
- All the ways you can overcome objections and refusals
- 14 vital factors to take into account in applications for new homes
- The critical issues in applications for conversions, extensions, home improvements, demolition and re-builds, mobile homes, sub-dividing houses, buildings in your garden, working from home and agricultural dwellings
- How to tell whether an appeal will succeed and the crucial steps to see an appeal through
- How four families got their planning permissions against the odds
Planning permission is the single biggest hurdle for anyone who has acquired land on which to build a house, or wants to extend or carry out other building work on property. There is never a guarantee that permission will be given and without it no project can start. Yet the system is not at all user-friendly. There is a bewildering array of formalities to go through and ever more stringent requirements to satisfy. Planning permission has never been more difficult to get, nor so sought after - every year over half-a-million applications are made, and the number is rising.
These trends create a tremendous need for this book, providing as it does clear, step-by-step guidance on how to go about securing planning permission successfully. It is written in an accessible style and illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and examples.
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