Land designations
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I'm not sure if this is the right forum but please move if not.
How is previously used land designated and who decides what the designation should be?
I'm looking to build my own house when I come back to UK and have got my eye on a piece of land to the rear of where I used to live. This land was previously a largish plant nursery but is now largely unused and derelict. It has been "bought" by a bloke who is using just a couple of the greenhouses to grow a very specialised type of plant and one corner of the property was used as storage and builders yard by my son-in-laws dad when he had a builders business many years ago (more than 20 years). I'm thinking of making an offer to the bloke who now owns it to buy about 5000 sq ft up in the corner where the builders storage area was and offer to replace the dilapidated gates and access road as part of the deal. I won't even approach the bloke if there is no chance of getting planning permission but I was hoping that at least part of the site would be designated as brownfield because of it's past use and therefore at least there is a chance of getting change of use. Thing is I obviously don't want to alert various parties at the moment as someone else could come along and effectively outbid me!!
How is previously used land designated and who decides what the designation should be?
I'm looking to build my own house when I come back to UK and have got my eye on a piece of land to the rear of where I used to live. This land was previously a largish plant nursery but is now largely unused and derelict. It has been "bought" by a bloke who is using just a couple of the greenhouses to grow a very specialised type of plant and one corner of the property was used as storage and builders yard by my son-in-laws dad when he had a builders business many years ago (more than 20 years). I'm thinking of making an offer to the bloke who now owns it to buy about 5000 sq ft up in the corner where the builders storage area was and offer to replace the dilapidated gates and access road as part of the deal. I won't even approach the bloke if there is no chance of getting planning permission but I was hoping that at least part of the site would be designated as brownfield because of it's past use and therefore at least there is a chance of getting change of use. Thing is I obviously don't want to alert various parties at the moment as someone else could come along and effectively outbid me!!
Yep its almost always local governement.
Dtart by going to the planning section of your Council's website and look through the Local Plan section. With luck you will find the relevant policies and a map showing where the policies apply
In my experience, nurseries are usually considered to be agricultural use are are very difficult to turn into resi use.
Dtart by going to the planning section of your Council's website and look through the Local Plan section. With luck you will find the relevant policies and a map showing where the policies apply
In my experience, nurseries are usually considered to be agricultural use are are very difficult to turn into resi use.
Yes, that was my guess that it would be agricultural and then I found out about the son-in -laws father putting storage buildings on there but that could have been on the quiet as it were as the land in question is well hidden and only accessible through a very narrow road between and old pub and some cottages so apart from the then owner nobody would have been aware. I will try and find out what the details of the latest local plans are though. I'm reluctant to go to the planning department though as I know that one particular bod in the planning department has "friends" who are developers, how do I know, well, I was a district councillor for that council 10 years ago but had nothing to do with or got involved with planning apart from sitting on local ward planning applications that went to committee.
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