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Guides for the developer who reads a plot before the offer in England and Wales: what the curtilage is, what class Q and class R allow on a barn, what a holding may build, what the rear and side envelopes and the outbuilding room are, whether a garage conversion or a porch needs an application, what a conservation area, a tree preservation order, green belt and grey belt do to a site, which developments escape biodiversity net gain, what section 278, CIL and the space standard cost, what brownfield and greenfield mean, how development land is valued and which plays a plot can carry. Every guide points at the free sheet that works the figure it discusses.

• Curtilage (curtilage definition, curtilage meaning, what is curtilage): the land around a house that the householder rights attach to, how it is read on a plot, and why the boundary of it is the first measurement

  What the curtilage of a house is, how it is read on a plot, what it includes and excludes, and why every permitted development limit is measured against it

• Class Q barn conversion rules (class q planning permission, class q planning, class q barn conversions, class q barn conversion, class q gpdo, class q, q planning permission, q planning, what is class q planning, permitted development barn conversion, gpdo): agricultural buildings to dwellings, the caps, the qualifying date and the prior approval

  What class Q allows on an agricultural building, the caps on dwellings and floorspace, the qualifying date, the extension and what prior approval decides.

• Class R permitted development (permitted development agricultural buildings): agricultural buildings to flexible commercial uses, the floorspace cap, the notification and prior approval thresholds, and how it differs from class Q

  What class R allows on an agricultural building, the flexible commercial uses it opens, its floorspace cap and thresholds, and how it differs from class Q.

• Agricultural permitted development (agricultural land permitted development, permitted development on agricultural land, permitted development on agricultural land less than 5 hectares, agricultural permitted development rights, what can i build on agricultural land without planning permission): the Part 6 classes by holding size, the prior notification and where the rights stop

  What agricultural permitted development allows on a holding above and below five hectares, the prior notification, and what a developer cannot build.

• Permitted development rear extension (rear extension permitted development, single storey rear extension permitted development, 3 meter rear extension, planning permission for rear extension, rear extension planning permission, larger home extension scheme, prior approval larger home extension): the standard depths, the larger home route, the heights and the boundary rules

  What depth a rear extension may have under permitted development by house type, the larger home extension route, and when an application is needed.

• Side extension (side extensions, permitted development side extension, permitted development side extensions, side extensions permitted development, side extension rules, side extension planning permission): half the original width, single storey, the height limit and the designated land that removes it

  What a side extension may be under permitted development: half the original width, single storey, within a height limit, and gone on designated land.

• Permitted development for extensions (permitted development, permitted development extension rules, extension permitted development, semi detached extension rules): what class A allows on a house in one reading, the original house, the limits that apply to every extension, and where the class stops

  What permitted development for extensions allows on a house in one reading: the original house, the shared limits, the two-storey rear and where it stops.

• Outbuildings (outbuilding uk, permitted development for outbuildings, outbuilding planning permission, outbuildings planning permission, outbuilding without planning permission, planning for outbuildings, planning permission for outbuildings, permitted development garden buildings, what can i build in my garden without planning permission): class E, the half-curtilage rule, the heights, the boundary and the incidental use

  What outbuildings a plot may take under permitted development: the half-curtilage limit, the heights, the boundary rule and the incidental use.

• Do you need planning permission to convert a garage (do i need planning permission to convert a garage, garage conversion planning permission, do i need planning permission to convert my garage, planning permission for garage conversion, permitted development garage conversion, planning garage conversion, converting garage into room, do you need planning permission for a garage conversion, garage conversion permitted development, planning permission garage conversion, do i need planning permission for a garage conversion, do you need planning permission for garage conversion, do you need planning to convert a garage, does a garage conversion need planning permission): internal works, the attached garage, the detached one, the conditions that remove the right and building regulations

  Whether a garage conversion needs planning permission: internal works usually do not, a parking condition does, and building regulations always apply.

• Porch permitted development (permitted development porch): class D, the ground area limit, the height limit, the distance from a highway boundary, and when a porch is an extension instead

  What porch permitted development allows: a porch outside any external door within an area limit, a height limit and a distance from the highway.

• Permitted development in conservation area (permitted development conservation area, permitted development in a conservation area, conservation area permitted development, article 4 map): article 2(3) land, the classes that go, the ones that stay, the article 4 direction and where to read the map

  What a conservation area removes from permitted development: the side extension, cladding, the two-storey rear, and how article 4 directions are found.

• Tree preservation order map: where the orders are published, what an order protects, what trees in a conservation area need, and what a protected tree does to a development site

  Where the tree preservation order map is found, what an order protects, the notice trees in a conservation area need, and what a tree does to a site.

• Grey belt (green belt planning permission): the definition in national policy, how green belt land is read against the purposes, the golden rules a grey belt scheme must meet, and where the boundary is found

  What grey belt is in national policy, how a green belt plot is read against the purposes, the golden rules a scheme meets, and what green belt needs.

• BNG exemptions: the developments the biodiversity net gain requirement does not apply to, the de minimis, householder and self-build exemptions, and what net gain costs a small site that is caught

  Which developments are exempt from biodiversity net gain, how the de minimis, householder and self-build exemptions work, and what net gain costs.

• Section 278 (visibility splay, visibility splays, what is cil, minimum space standards): the highways agreement, the access geometry, the community infrastructure levy on floorspace and the space standard the dwellings must meet, read before the offer

  What a section 278 agreement is and costs, the visibility splay a new access needs, what CIL charges on floorspace, and the space standards dwellings meet.

• Brownfield vs greenfield (greenfield vs brownfield, brown field meaning, what is a brownfield site, what is brownfield land, what is brownfield vs greenfield, greenfield brownfield, brownfield land, brownfield site, green field sites, greenfield site, brownfield sites, greenfield sites, brown field, brown field site, what is brownfield site, brownfield): previously developed land, what it includes and excludes, the brownfield register and what each class does to policy, cost and value

  What brownfield and greenfield land are in planning terms, what previously developed land includes and excludes, the register, and what each does to value.

• Valuation of development land (land valuation, land valuation uk, land value, land values, land valuations, how do you value land, how to value land uk, land appraisals, residual land value, residential development land values per acre, planning appraisal): gross development value less costs and return, benchmark land value, the per-acre comparison and the planning appraisal that precedes it

  How development land is valued by the residual method, what gross development value, costs and return are, benchmark land value and land values per acre.

• Development site (property development advice uk, build to rent, airspace development, title splitting, splitting a property into two titles uk): the routes a plot can carry, from the permitted envelope to the airspace classes, the split title and the rented scheme, read before the offer

  What makes a plot a development site: the permitted envelope, class Q, the airspace classes, title splitting and build to rent, read before the offer.