The application used the Government's Permitted Development Rights (PDR) which allows for such conversions. Whilst this PDR process is meant to make applications quicker and easier, in reality the process is fraught with a number of criteria and issues that can trip up an applicant. RCC are however very experienced in using these PDR regulations and as such the application proceeded to approval smoothly within the normal 8 weeks timescale.
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In 2013 the Government introduced new permitted development rights to allow office buildings to be converted to residential use. This was for an initial temporary period of 3 years but they subsequently made the new rights permanent in 2016.
RCC was brought on board by PKA Architects when they were approached by a developer proposing a mixed use development on a vacant site in Devizes town centre. The site accommodated a single storey clinic building and car park but historically there would have been a building on the main road frontage
RCC were approached regarding the possibility of attaining planning permission for an additional dwelling in the garden of our clients’house. It was an extremely timely approach, as Wiltshire Council was in the process of changing their local planning policy document.
