What is planning permission?

What is planning permission?

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Planning permission is something you need to seek from the local planning authority so that you are allowed by law to plan to build a property in that particular area. It might be that you are looking to knock a premises down, to rebuild something on that site, or it might just be a small extension to an existing property. But you do need to seek planning permission; you need to submit the plans for that development to the planning office. And what the planning office will then do is notify the residents in the area and ask for any objections that they might have to that planning permission gaining consent. And only when you've gone through that process and you have gained planning permission, should you actually be developing anything at all. So it is very important to have planning permission before you actually start the build. If you don't get planning permission before the build, you could be told to demolish any building you've done. So it's really important you get planning permission sorted out up front.