martynjl

@ProDaveyes, they turned down almost everything requested by the seller, the neighbours kicked off about everything so the curtilage ended up being more or less the outline of the house, garage and road. They've allowed only what they had to. Not even a small extension to the original building. The neighbours had a big say on it and when they could not get the application refused they played havoc with the plans and got everything reduced in size. Funny considering their massive "compounds" near by.

We're trying to buy a piece of land that has an old stone cottage on it that has full Planning for reinstatement. The planners have not allowed much to be altered at all and have removed PD rights and placed an article 3 directive on the curtilage of the plot. Which states: Article 3, Schedule 2, Part 1 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or any Order revoking and re- enacting that Order with or without modification) no enlargements, improvements or other alterations to the dwelling house or any outbuildings shall be erected or constructed without the prior written approval of the Local Planning Authority. So I'm assuming this means we'd need permission for a static caravan to be placed on it during the build. Does this mean it could be refused? As we'd need to live there in order to proceed. I think they have tried to avoid anyone doing this by making the curtilage basically the same size of the house and garage and not leaving any room to put one there. We could put one where the garage is to be built. Build the house then move in and replace the static with the garage. It's got me worried by the fact they seem to have to tried to avoid this situation by not including none of the 3.5 acres in the curtilage. Can anyone offer an advice?