Sunday 5 October 2014

Relaxed planning rules are supporting home businesses

Relaxed planning rules mean that it has never been easier to extend or adapt your home to accommodate a home business.

A recent Government report suggests that:
"New figures show planning reform and cut red tape have enabled thousands of homeowners to make improvements."
Recently published figures show how efforts to cut red tape in the Planning System have enabled thousands of householders in England to make improvements to their homes.

Since last year, new "permitted development" rights have given households more power to extend their homes without having to apply for planning permission.

The Government figures show that in the 3 months to June, Local Authorities across England received 7,700 applications for home extensions – 6,500 of which got the go-ahead without needing to go through the formal planning application process (submitting a formal planning application is an 8 week process that incurs a £172 fee).

These country-wide figures mask a contrast in activity across different local authorities.  The London Boroughs have generated the most activity as shown in the Table below. Meanwhile, a number of authorities elsewhere in England have received no applications under the new "Larger householder extensions" scheme.

Table showing Councils that have received more than 100 applications for prior approval under the "Larger householder extensions" scheme in the period April to June 2014
                                           
Local Authority                                              Number of applications
Hounslow 188
Hillingdon 184
Birmingham 174
Brent 165
Redbridge 150
Ealing 138
Barnet 127
Harrow 118
The Full Table is provided at the end of this post.

The new figures also provide good news for home improvement proposals that still require planning permission.  The Government's figures show that planning application approvals are at a 10-year high, with authorities granting 350,200 permissions in the year to June – 2% higher than in the previous year.  91% of householder planning applications are now being granted by local Councils.

Further Information
For advice on whether you require planning permission to work from home check out www.house-saver/home-business

For further information on the above planning application statistics check out the www.gov.uk website.


Table of decisions by Councils on applications for prior approvals under the "Larger householder extensions" scheme in the period April to June 2014                                        
Planning authority
Larger householder extensions

Prior approval not required
Granted
Refused

Adur
14
1
0

Allerdale
18
0
0

Amber Valley
6
0
0

Arun
14
1
0

Ashfield
17
17
0

Ashford (1)
..
..
..

Aylesbury Vale
17
0
7

Babergh
0
12
1

Barking and Dagenham
60
3
6

Barnet
127
18
38

Barnsley
18
1
0

Barrow-in-Furness
6
0
0

Basildon
22
3
4

Basingstoke and Deane
20
0
0

Bassetlaw
6
0
2

Bath and North East Somerset UA
13
0
4

Bedford UA
18
0
1

Bexley
22
3
7

Birmingham
174
8
11

Blaby
5
3
0

Blackburn with Darwen UA
11
1
1

Blackpool UA
13
0
0

Bolsover
7
0
1

Bolton
0
18
4

Boston
3
0
0

Bournemouth UA
19
3
0

Bracknell Forest UA
3
1
0

Bradford
64
0
16

Braintree
18
2
0

Breckland
4
0
0

Brent
165
3
24

Brentwood
11
1
1

Brighton and Hove UA
39
4
5

Bristol, City of UA
33
5
12

Broadland
17
0
0

Broads Authority
0
0
0

Bromley
54
3
29

Bromsgrove
0
0
1

Broxbourne
13
2
0

Broxtowe
0
0
0

Burnley
8
0
0

Bury
8
0
8

Calderdale
18
1
1

Cambridge
7
6
2

Camden
3
0
1

Cannock Chase
7
0
2

Canterbury
9
8
4

Carlisle
12
12
0

Castle Point
7
0
1

Central Bedfordshire UA
32
3
3

Charnwood
18
0
0

Chelmsford
28
1
2

Cheltenham
0
0
0

Cherwell
10
2
1

Cheshire East UA
39
2
2

Cheshire West and Chester UA
24
0
4

Chesterfield
13
12
1

Chichester
0
0
0

Chiltern
7
1
7

Chorley
0
14
3

Christchurch
4
1
0

City of London
0
0
0

Colchester (1)
23
1
1

Copeland
11
0
0

Corby
0
1
0

Cornwall UA
10
2
3

Cotswold
1
0
0

County Durham UA
37
4
0

Coventry
30
3
8

Craven
5
0
0

Crawley
7
0
1

Croydon
0
63
24

Dacorum (1)
11
0
6

Darlington UA
9
2
0

Dartford
12
0
5

Dartmoor National Park
0
0
0

Daventry
7
0
0

Derby UA
24
1
2

Derbyshire Dales
5
0
0

Doncaster
30
1
0

Dover
12
0
2

Dudley
31
1
8

Ealing
138
22
51

East Cambridgeshire
3
2
0

East Devon
0
0
0

East Dorset
0
13
0

East Hampshire
4
0
0

East Hertfordshire
8
0
5

East Lindsey
4
0
0

East Northamptonshire
0
0
0

East Riding of Yorkshire UA
1
36
2

East Staffordshire
8
1
0

Eastbourne
4
0
1

Eastleigh
13
0
0

Eden
3
0
0

Elmbridge
15
2
9

Enfield
87
5
21

Epping Forest
23
3
4

Epsom and Ewell
17
1
7

Erewash
12
0
0

Exeter
11
0
0

Exmoor National Park
0
0
0

Fareham
16
3
1

Fenland
6
0
0

Forest Heath
4
0
0

Forest of Dean
0
7
0

Fylde
8
0
0

Gateshead
10
1
1

Gedling
11
0
0

Gloucester
12
11
1

Gosport
17
0
0

Gravesham
8
0
0

Great Yarmouth
0
10
0

Greenwich
0
3
5

Guildford
12
1
10

Hackney
8
6
0

Halton UA
6
0
1

Hambleton
5
0
0

Hammersmith and Fulham
7
4
2

Harborough
5
1
0

Haringey
22
0
11

Harlow
0
0
0

Harrogate
13
0
3

Harrow
118
14
45

Hart
3
0
2

Hartlepool UA
4
1
0

Hastings
0
1
0

Havant
0
0
0

Havering
55
7
11

Herefordshire, County of UA
4
0
0

Hertsmere
0
0
0

High Peak
9
0
1

Hillingdon
184
9
74

Hinckley and Bosworth
11
1
1

Horsham
12
3
2

Hounslow
188
124
64

Huntingdonshire
0
8
0

Hyndburn
6
0
1

Ipswich
0
20
0

Isle of Wight UA
4
0
1

Isles of Scilly
0
0
0

Islington
1
4
5

Kensington and Chelsea
1
0
0

Kettering
3
1
0

King's Lynn and West Norfolk
6
0
3

Kingston upon Hull, City of UA
13
0
0

Kingston upon Thames
44
5
51

Kirklees
29
9
8

Knowsley
12
0
0

Lake District National Park
0
0
0

Lambeth
21
25
2

Lancaster
7
0
0

Leeds
65
1
3

Leicester UA
28
0
11

Lewes
0
10
1

Lewisham
41
41
10

Lichfield
15
1
0

Lincoln
6
2
0

Liverpool
7
0
1

London Legacy Development Corporation
0
0
0

Luton UA
59
7
5

Maidstone
20
1
2

Maldon
2
0
0

Malvern Hills
4
0
0

Manchester
18
8
8

Mansfield
6
1
0

Medway UA
0
20
2

Melton
0
1
0

Mendip
1
0
0

Merton
75
8
17

Mid Devon
0
6
1

Mid Suffolk
14
1
1

Mid Sussex
11
4
1

Middlesbrough UA
14
0
0

Milton Keynes UA
19
1
1

Mole Valley
18
1
1

New Forest
0
10
7

New Forest National Park
0
0
0

Newark and Sherwood
8
1
3

Newcastle upon Tyne
8
2
3

Newcastle-under-Lyme
7
0
0

Newham
42
0
13

North Devon
2
2
0

North Dorset
3
0
0

North East Derbyshire
17
0
0

North East Lincolnshire UA
6
7
2

North Hertfordshire
12
0
1

North Kesteven
1
1
0

North Lincolnshire UA
10
0
0

North Norfolk
0
7
0

North Somerset UA
14
0
2

North Tyneside
8
0
0

North Warwickshire
2
0
0

North West Leicestershire
14
14
0

North Yorks Moors
0
0
0

Northampton
13
1
1

Northumberland UA
27
2
0

Northumberland UA
0
0
0

Norwich
7
1
0

Nottingham UA
16
0
1

Nuneaton and Bedworth
9
7
2

Oadby and Wigston
8
7
1

Oldham
5
6
2

Oxford
25
0
6

Peak District National Park
0
0
0

Pendle
11
1
0

Peterborough UA
14
2
1

Plymouth UA
8
0
1

Poole UA
13
1
0

Portsmouth UA
20
0
0

Preston
18
1
2

Purbeck
0
0
0

Reading UA
11
0
4

Redbridge
150
72
85

Redcar & Cleveland
12
1
1

Redditch
7
0
0

Reigate and Banstead
18
4
4

Ribble Valley
2
1
3

Richmond upon Thames
23
30
9

Richmondshire
3
0
0

Rochdale
15
0
0

Rochford
14
1
0

Rossendale
3
3
0

Rother
2
1
0

Rotherham
15
0
3

Rugby
12
1
0

Runnymede
16
0
11

Rushcliffe
19
2
0

Rushmoor
2
0
0

Rutland UA
0
2
1

Ryedale
0
8
2

Salford
0
11
2

Sandwell
41
2
2

Scarborough
8
1
1

Sedgemoor
9
0
0

Sefton
22
0
2

Selby
11
2
3

Sevenoaks
9
2
1

Sheffield
23
2
3

Shepway
10
0
0

Shropshire UA
15
0
1

Slough UA
62
6
9

Solihull
27
2
0

South Bucks
16
2
2

South Cambridgeshire
8
5
0

South Derbyshire
8
0
0

South Downs National Park
0
0
0

South Gloucestershire UA
30
0
0

South Hams
2
1
1

South Holland
2
1
0

South Kesteven
8
0
0

South Lakeland
7
0
0

South Norfolk
6
5
0

South Northamptonshire
11
0
0

South Oxfordshire
1
0
0

South Ribble
16
0
0

South Somerset
9
1
0

South Staffordshire
6
2
0

South Tyneside
14
1
0

Southampton UA
12
9
3

Southend-on-Sea UA
4
14
8

Southwark
7
2
0

Spelthorne
2
16
6

St Albans
24
3
10

St Edmundsbury
9
0
1

St. Helens
20
0
0

Stafford
10
0
1

Staffordshire Moorlands
2
2
0

Stevenage
6
2
1

Stockport
4
27
0

Stockton-on-Tees UA
16
16
0

Stoke-on-Trent UA
13
12
1

Stratford-on-Avon
8
0
1

Stroud
0
8
1

Suffolk Coastal
16
0
0

Sunderland
22
0
0

Surrey Heath
13
0
3

Sutton
88
6
28

Swale
0
0
0

Swindon UA
23
0
0

Tameside
11
2
0

Tamworth
12
0
0

Tandridge
19
1
1

Taunton Deane
11
1
0

Teignbridge
4
2
1

Telford and Wrekin UA
3
5
1

Tendring
12
12
0

Test Valley
7
1
2

Tewkesbury
0
7
1

Thanet
23
2
0

Three Rivers
18
5
2

Thurrock UA
37
0
2

Tonbridge and Malling
6
0
1

Torbay UA
5
0
0

Torridge
0
1
0

Tower Hamlets
6
0
1

Trafford
20
2
3

Tunbridge Wells
11
0
2

Uttlesford
9
2
2

Vale of White Horse
0
1
0

Wakefield
30
1
0

Walsall
27
1
6

Waltham Forest
80
0
35

Wandsworth
31
5
10

Warrington UA
12
1
4

Warwick
18
0
4

Watford
21
2
7

Waveney
6
6
0

Waverley
8
1
6

Wealden
12
0
1

Wellingborough
2
0
0

Welwyn Hatfield
16
13
3

West Berkshire UA
0
1
2

West Dorset
6
0
0

West Edevon
0
0
0

West Lancashire
7
0
3

West Lindsey
4
1
0

West Oxfordshire
4
0
0

West Somerset
0
0
0

Westminster
1
1
1

Weymouth and Portland
1
0
0

Wigan
33
3
0

Wiltshire UA
4
8
0

Winchester
10
0
0

Windsor and Maidenhead UA
16
0
2

Wirral
33
4
0

Woking
3
2
0

Wokingham UA
18
0
0

Wolverhampton
21
1
1

Worcester
0
7
0

Worthing
16
2
1

Wychavon
0
8
0

Wycombe
11
2
9

Wyre
12
2
0

Wyre Forest
0
12
1

York UA
0
33
5

Yorkshire Dales National Park
0
0
0






England (1)
5 278
1 256
1 130

.. = figure not provided
(1) Estimates have not been made for questions where the planning authority has not provided a figure
Source: PS1 returns to DCLG

David

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