Categories: general_news
      Date: Jun 21, 2013
     Title: Further changes to Permitted Development Rights

This guidance reflects increases to the size limits for single-storey rear extensions which apply between 30 May 2013 and 30 May 2016, and the associated neighbour consultation scheme.



An extension or addition to your house is considered to be permitted development, not requiring an application for planning permission, subject to the following limits and conditions:

* The term "original house" means the house as it was first built or as it stood on 1 July 1948 (if it was built before that date). Although you may not have built an extension to the house, a previous owner may have done so.

* Designated land includes national parks and the Broads, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, conservation areas and World Heritage Sites.