Docklands Solicitor

Planning permission is usually required do any building works in under or over ground

The Government can make exceptions to this rule by listing out, in a General Permitted Development Order, types of ‘permitted development’ for which it is not necessary to get planning permission.

A local planning authority (or the Secretary of State) may, however, take away the permitted development rights within a specified area (Article 4) so that planning permission is required after all

So, you want a conservatory. That is building work over land, but certain sizes of conservatory are listed in a GPDO. The salesman may tell you that it does not need planning permission. Check whether your local authority has made an article 4 direction removing that size of conservatory from the GPDO so you need planning permission after all

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