SPG B2 - Guidelines For Extending Your Home

This Guide explains how the Council will consider the design of your extension when you submit your planning application. Its purpose is to guide you, the applicant or your agent and architect, as to what is likely to be acceptable to the Council in the vast majority of cases. It will also help your neighbours, and other interested parties, who may be affected by your planning application. This guidance applies to houses, flats, maisonettes and houses in multiple occupation.

 

Although some extensions may be "permitted development", as defined by The Town & Country Planning General Permitted Development Order and therefore would not require planning permission, it is worth remembering that, even if this is the case, that unsympathetic alterations which are not in keeping with your neighbourhood can devalue your property.

 

Whilst the guidelines are an aid to good design you should understand that individual cases do not always fit easily into a particular category. The advice in this leaflet does not apply to Listed Buildings or to buildings in Conservation Areas, where more strict criteria may apply. Other criteria also apply in rural areas and areas liable to flooding. In such cases further advice should be sought from the Council's Development Control Service. If your proposal does not meet these guidelines please submit a brief statement with your planning application to justify the reason.

 

The policies contained in existing adopted development plans (Structure Plan policy EN1 and Wokingham District Local Plan, policies WOS3 and WBE1), relating to design of extensions to existing dwellings are very general and do not give specific advice

 

This guideline was the subject of public consultation and prepared in accordance with national Planning Policy Guidance note 12 "Development Plans" (PPG12) paragraph 3.16. The Executive adopted the guideline as Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) on 30 September 2002. It is therefore a material consideration in the determination of planning applications. The Report of Consultation on the SPG is included on pages 76 to 81 of the Adobe Acrobate file that details the Executive Agenda for 30 September 2002.

 

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