Changing red line mid-application, off-site BNG

[Drellingore]

Another update: LPA are saying that for off-site BNG, they'd need to put a S106 in place before determining the application officially, and that it can't be done as a planning condition. This might be worth bearing in mind for future readers of the thread considering off-site BNG.

 

We're now trying to remove the holiday let angle of the application, and describe it as an annexe only. On first consideration they were fine with this idea, but any holiday let usage (even via Airbnb) would apparently require a subsequent application for that use.

[Drellingore]

The LPA are saying they would consider it as exempt from the BNG requirements only if we sign a "unilateral undertaking" in which we agree to reside in the property for three years after completion. That's absolutely our plan, but has anyone seen an example of such an agreement and do y'all know what kind of terms are included? I mean, what happens if our circumstances change?

[Alan Ambrose]

Yeah quite, it wouldn't be the first time an LPA has taken advantage of someone dying. I'm interested in seeing the terms. Annoys me that central government make some laws (BNG exclusion for self-builders) and then local government finds a way round those laws.