Planning Tips To Know Before You Move Or Renovate.
Our members D & M Planning have some excellent advice to help you navigate the planning process.
Living and working in such a beautiful part of the Surrey Hills area comes with inherent challenges for making your property large and adapting the property to modern living, all of which need careful consideration when moving to the area, whether it’s a matter of downsizing, or looking to make more room.
The planning system imposes a number of planning constraints whether it’s due to the Surrey Hills National Landscape, Green Belt or the property being a heritage asset, these constraints seek to protect the qualities of the built environment and in doing so can make the prospect of altering and changing your own property somewhat challenging.
This can be the case, even if those changes would not be readily seen and wouldn’t impact on neighbouring properties, the Surrey Hills area is protected for its intrinsic value and the planning system reflects this.
Whilst there are numerous protective constraints within the Surrey Hills Area, there can often be a way around these challenges. Doing your research and working with experienced professional (planning consultants, architects etc) can help you form strategies and understandings as to whether your proposed development would be possible and how you might achieve your goal of improving your property.
A lot of these planning constraints are dealt with by way of definition so what might be right for one house is not the same for another and often we find that multi-staged processes can work well.
The planning system might be a challenge, but it is not always insurmountable. Speaking with suitably experienced professionals within the network will provide you with an invaluable set of professional opinions based on years of experience.
Out biggest word of advice therefore is do your research or let a professional do it for you before you commit to anything.
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