As business ideas go, buying land and then building on it so that you can sell the new property and make a profit is not a bad one by any stretch of the imagination. If you do it right and put a lot of time, effort, and research into the planning of it all, then you can be extremely successful, and the more money you make, the more houses with land for sale you can buy, and the more profits you can build.
Only, of course, it’s not quite as simple as it sounds. The main issue, once you have dealt with the funding and the contractors, is the planning permission. Planning permission is going to be required if you intend to build a new structure (and often even if you intend to change an existing structure), and if you can’t get it, then you can’t build. If you do build without planning permission, you run the risk of having to pull everything down, even if the building is complete. The fines and penalties that go along with this are just not worth thinking about; your little business would be destroyed.
So it’s clear that planning permission is vital if you want to build any kind of structure. How then can you get it? Read on for some useful tips.
Have Quality Designs
The most important part of the planning permission process has to be the design. This is what is going to inform the planning committee about what it is you are intending to build, and it is this that will give them an idea about whether or not it is going to be allowed.
A good design must include the right scaling, and it must be completed by a qualified architect. A few scribbles on a piece of scrap paper is not going to suffice. You must also be at pains to explain just how the new building is going to fit in with its surroundings. You might design the most beautiful house but if it’s entirely different from everything else in the street then planning permission is unlikely to be granted, for example.
Hire A Planning Consultant
Although hiring a professional planning consultant is going to cost you more money than you might originally have costed for, having one on board could be the difference between obtaining planning permission and not, so you should at least consider the idea. In the end, a planning consultant who knows what they are doing can save you time, money, and a lot of effort, and help you to get the planning permission you’re hoping for on the first application.
Make sure that whoever you hire has plenty of experience in obtaining planning permission in your area. Local authorities differ from place to place, and what works in one area might not be allowed in the next. Just because the professional you want to use has had a lot of success in the past, if that success has never been in your specific location, then it’s wise to look elsewhere.
Have A Backup Plan
The best plan you can have is to be sure about your design before you submit it, having thought about all the different problems that might come up and dealt with them before they were even noticed.
This is not always possible, however, and it might be that you submit your plans even though there were a few points you just weren’t sure about.
It’s always a good idea to have a backup plan in mind if this is the situation you find yourself in. You can submit your original plans in the hopes that they will be granted planning permission, but you can have a second set of plans, the revised version, ready and waiting just in case. That way, even if the second set isn’t what you first wanted, at least there will only be a limited delay in getting the project started.
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