Bournemouth Borough Council: Pure Town Planning are pleased to announce we have recently secured a change of use from an A2 Unit to a one bedroom flat via the prior approval procedure. This change of use was in North Bournemouth on the Gillam Road shopping parade. This prior approval is […]
UPDATED: Office to residential permitted development rights to become permanent
England: In a statement made yesterday, the Government has announced that the temporary permitted development right allowing the change of use of offices to residential dwellings will definitely now be made permanent. Further details have been provided today in the form of a statement by Housing and Planning Minister Brandon Lewis. […]
Approved: Change of use of office into flats in Poole
Poole Borough Council: Pure are at it again! This time we secured approval for the conversion of existing office space into four studio flats and one, 2 bedroom flat (5 flats in total) under the prior approval permitted development system for B1 to C3 with plans prepared by Anders Roberts […]
Prior approval not required: permitted development agricultural barn conversion near Newbury
West Berkshire Council: Pure Town Planning have successfully negotiated a permitted development proposal to convert a barn into a house through the rather tricky “prior approval” system in a rural location near to Newbury in Berkshire. The agricultural to residential conversion permitted development right, introduced in April last year, has been […]
Approved: change of use of office space to 6 flats in Southampton city centre
Southampton City Council: Pure Town Planning has just secured consent for another office to residential permitted development scheme in central Southampton for six flats. An earlier prior approval application for the first and second floors of the three storey office building was approved by Southampton City Council earlier in the year (see […]
Latest changes to permitted development rights…
England: The Government has just laid The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 – the first consolidated permitted development order since 1995. It’s about time as the 1995 order was subject to over 20 separate amendment orders – ten of which under the present Government. The consolidated […]
Approved: office-to-residential change of use for 28 flats in the centre of Guildford
Guildford Borough Council: Pure Town Planning has just secured consent for another office (Use Class B1a) to residential permitted development scheme, this time for 28 one and two bedroom flats in central Guildford, Surrey. Despite 29 objections from local residents the appointed planning officer rightly noted that the proposal was not […]
Approved: office to residential permitted development consent for 14 flats in Southampton city centre
Southampton City Council: Pure Town Planning has just secured consent for another office to residential permitted development scheme, this time in central Southampton for fourteen flats. An earlier prior approval application for the three storey office building was originally turned down when the Southampton City Council planning officer, upon visiting the […]
Further permitted development changes may not happen before the General Election
England: Over the Christmas period the Department for Communities and Local Government published its Ninth Statement of New Regulation: January to June 2015 setting out the measures it anticipates bringing forward in that period (in practice between now and the General Election in May). Absent from that list are additional changes to […]
Approved: B1(a) to C3 Prior Approval Application in Hinckley, Leicestershire
Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council: Pure Town Planning’s list of planning approvals further afield continues to grow… We are delighted to announce that we have recently helped a client to secure consent for a prior approval application in Hinckley, Leicestershire to convert a redundant town centre office into residential use. The scheme will […]