Extending your home (Supplementary Planning Guidance B2)

A guide to extending your home

The Council has produced the attached guide to extending your home which explains how we will consider the design of your extension and what is likely to considered as acceptable. 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.

This guide was adopted as Supplementary Planning Guidance in September 2002 and therefore is a material consideration when making decisions on planning applications.

Permitted development

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 unsympathetic alterations which are not in keeping with your neighbourhood can devalue your property.

General advice

Whilst the Council's guide to extending your home provides an aid to good design you should understand that individual cases do not always fit easily into a particular category.

The advice in the 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 cases such as the above, further advice should be sought from the Council's Development Management Service. If your proposal does not meet these guidelines please submit a brief statement with your planning application to justify the reason.

Planning policy

Planning policies that you should consider when looking to extend your home are:

• Design Supplementary Planning Document (including the Borough's Residential Design Guide and Village Design Statements)

• Core Strategy Policies CP1: Sustianable Development and CP3: General Principles for Development