Pre-planning advice

[Bournbrook]

Hi all. I have a preplanning meeting over Teams on Wednesday to get advice about whether building a new house in our back garden would be feasible. I have just provided a current and proposed site plan I mocked up for now and would like them to advise on height, design, position etc. I also included a design and access statement referring to all relevant planning regulations. 

 

does anyone have any advice on important things to ask at this stage?

[PeterW]

Looks like a mirror of next door ..? Pull the planning for that from your council portal and make sure you answered any points in their planning officer approval. One issue you may have is use of the garage - it’s at 90° to the drive and you won’t turn a car there - and also about requiring to leave the properly in forwards gear, you don’t have space for a turning circle so the highways officer may object.

 

 

[joe90]

+1 wot @PeterW says above 

[Bournbrook]

51 minutes ago, PeterW said:

Looks like a mirror of next door ..? Pull the planning for that from your council portal and make sure you answered any points in their planning officer approval. One issue you may have is use of the garage - it’s at 90° to the drive and you won’t turn a car there - and also about requiring to leave the properly in forwards gear, you don’t have space for a turning circle so the highways officer may object.

 

 

Thanks. 
 

I have just mirrored Nextdoor for ease at this stage as it’s a good use of the space and does provide a turning circle.they have an identical size plot as it was parcelled off from a larger house in the 1800s.  The turning circle was stated in their planning docs and was a condition from highways. We can always shift things a little. 
 

thanks for advice!

[PeterW]

TBH I would want to know if this is for you to build and sell (CIL is an issue as is VAT) or to build and live in..?

 

If the latter then does the shape / size etc give you what you want or are you doing it to just make the money and move on ..?

[Iceverge]

If you can get some guidance about ridge height and any overlooking concerns they might have. It'll make your designers job easier. 

 

 

[Bournbrook]

1 minute ago, PeterW said:

TBH I would want to know if this is for you to build and sell (CIL is an issue as is VAT) or to build and live in..?

 

If the latter then does the shape / size etc give you what you want or are you doing it to just make the money and move on ..?

Live in ourselves and sell off the main house. Otherwise the CIL just wouldn’t make it viable. 
 

the ridge height of Nextdoor is 5.7m but I would be interested to know if they would allow any roof windows (not dormers) to have rooms upstairs. Even without this I think the GIA would be enough for us. 
 

I think there is possibly a better use of space on the plot but both architects we’ve spoken to think it is not a bad location and size. We can deal with all that once we know the parameters of what the council would consider. Our main aim is to create a light space that is well connected to the garden. 
 

If we can’t build what we want we would consider fencing it off and selling as a plot with planning but this doesn’t seem a very lucrative thing to do at the moment! Hopefully house prices will sort themselves out. 
 

 

[Bournbrook]

7 minutes ago, Iceverge said:

If you can get some guidance about ridge height and any overlooking concerns they might have. It'll make your designers job easier. 

 

 

Yes, this was my plan. We are fortunate (and unfortunate in some ways) that there are 3m hedges the whole way round which means there is no overlooking at all at first floor level.  I’d be intrigued to know what they’d think about roof windows….

 

we would also need to consider overlooking from our current house but our neighbours have mitigated this will some high planting. 

[nod]

I would spend a small amount of money and go through a planning consultant Who will add detail to all of the above points made 

 

[Temp]

Looks like you have allocated three car parking spaces or room to park and turn two cars so I don't see that as a problem.

 

 

 

 

[PeterW]

44 minutes ago, Katie AG said:

I think there is possibly a better use of space on the plot but both architects we’ve spoken to think it is not a bad location and size

that worries me - you are paying an architect (hopefully !) for their ideas, if you just want someone to draw yours then go to an AT..! 

[Bournbrook]

9 minutes ago, PeterW said:

that worries me - you are paying an architect (hopefully !) for their ideas, if you just want someone to draw yours then go to an AT..! 

We still need an architect for ideas of layout, exterior design, best use of space, best solar gain etc etc

[Bournbrook]

21 minutes ago, Temp said:

Looks like you have allocated three car parking spaces or room to park and turn two cars so I don't see that as a problem.

 

 

 

 

Yes that’s what I was going for. The third space is so we know there’s room to turn or to park a car in a different position if want access to garage.