Comments on: Selling a house – Do you need to provide copy planning permissions or building regulation approvals? http://www.conveyancingexplained.co.uk/selling-advice/selling-a-house-%e2%80%93-do-you-need-to-provide-copy-planning-permissions-or-building-regulation-approvals/ Understand conveyancing when buying and selling your house Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:28:44 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.conveyancingexplained.co.uk/selling-advice/selling-a-house-%e2%80%93-do-you-need-to-provide-copy-planning-permissions-or-building-regulation-approvals/comment-page-1/#comment-403 admin Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:24:34 +0000 http://www.conveyancingexplained.co.uk/?p=91#comment-403 You should make sure that you tell your solicitor about this - he needs to know so that he can give you legal advice tailored to your particular circumstance. If the Council told you that you didn't need planning permission or building regulation approval, this was probably because the extension constituted "permitted development", which doesn't need the usual permissions. The house sale can still go ahead but you might just need to have your solicitor write to the Council with information about the size and construction of the extension and ask that they confirm in writing that planning permission/building regulation approval was not required. This is not likely to cost anything - I suppose some Councils may make a small charge for producing the letter but it is unlikely to be anything significant. Your conveyancing solicitor is paid to work for you and to provide you with legal advice - don't keep anything from your solicitor in terms of your transaction because this will prevent them from properly advising you. Hope this helps! Gemma You should make sure that you tell your solicitor about this – he needs to know so that he can give you legal advice tailored to your particular circumstance. If the Council told you that you didn’t need planning permission or building regulation approval, this was probably because the extension constituted “permitted development”, which doesn’t need the usual permissions. The house sale can still go ahead but you might just need to have your solicitor write to the Council with information about the size and construction of the extension and ask that they confirm in writing that planning permission/building regulation approval was not required. This is not likely to cost anything – I suppose some Councils may make a small charge for producing the letter but it is unlikely to be anything significant.

Your conveyancing solicitor is paid to work for you and to provide you with legal advice – don’t keep anything from your solicitor in terms of your transaction because this will prevent them from properly advising you.

Hope this helps!

Gemma

]]> By: debbie http://www.conveyancingexplained.co.uk/selling-advice/selling-a-house-%e2%80%93-do-you-need-to-provide-copy-planning-permissions-or-building-regulation-approvals/comment-page-1/#comment-394 debbie Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:29:23 +0000 http://www.conveyancingexplained.co.uk/?p=91#comment-394 Hello, we have received an offer on our house and all our conveyancing is going ahead. About 8 years ago we added a small extension to the property. It was a self build (by my retired builder Dad) and although we got 'advice' from the council about the size not needed permission, we have no planning permission or building regulation approval. Basically we just built it and trust that it is safe cos it was by a builder. Does our solicitor need to be aware of this? Will the house sale still be able to go ahead and will it cost us anything? Hope you can help. Hello, we have received an offer on our house and all our conveyancing is going ahead. About 8 years ago we added a small extension to the property. It was a self build (by my retired builder Dad) and although we got ‘advice’ from the council about the size not needed permission, we have no planning permission or building regulation approval. Basically we just built it and trust that it is safe cos it was by a builder.

Does our solicitor need to be aware of this? Will the house sale still be able to go ahead and will it cost us anything?

Hope you can help.

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