{"id":1860,"date":"2010-10-08T16:17:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T16:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2010-10-08T16:17:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T16:17:56","slug":"scottish-gov-consults-on-householder-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1860","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Gov. consults on householder development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Scottish Government has launched a major consultation on  proposals which would mean householders would no longer need planning  permission for major home improvements and large extensions.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nProposed changes to existing Householder Permitted Development Rights  have been designed to simplify the rules and free up planning officers\u2019  time allowing them to concentrate on large and complex applications.<\/p>\n<p>Each year planning authorities in Scotland receive some 40,000  applications, of which 20,000 relate to householder development. The  consultation document states that the majority of these 20,000  applications relate to single-storey extensions, of which 97 per cent  are approved with little or no amendments.<\/p>\n<p>Among other measures the consultation has recommended that home owners  would be able to build a single-storey extension to the rear of a home  to a size equivalent to 50 per cent of the entire plot, instead of the  24 sq m currently permitted. The proposed rules also said there must be  the same area of garden undeveloped as developed.<\/p>\n<p>The changes to proposed permitted development rights would not apply to  protected listed buildings or in conservation areas, where existing  planning restrictions will remain.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Government has estimated that, if adopted, the proposals  would result in a 20-25 per cent reduction in planning applications from  home owners.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) Director  Dr Se\u00e1n O\u2019Reilly noted that &#8216; if the government dispensed with the need  for planning permission altogether it should lead to 100 per cent  reduction in planning applications for everyone, but cautioned against  that thinking&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Search Planning Portal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/england\/professionals\/news\/archive\/2010\/oct10\/2010_10_week_1\/071010_2\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/england\/professionals\/news\/archive\/2010\/oct10\/2010_10_week_1\/071010_2\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Government has launched a major consultation on proposals which would mean householders would no longer need planning permission for major home improvements and large extensions. Proposed changes to existing Householder Permitted Development Rights have been designed to simplify &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1860\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}