Anyone tried to get planning for holiday lets?

[russ_a]

Hi,

We are looking at buying a house with over 2 acres of garden/woods. One possibility of helping to pay the mortgage off ASAP would be to erect a couple of wooden lodges in the grounds and let them as holiday lets.

Just wondered if anyone had tried to get planning etc.

Many Thanks

Russ

[ginettag27]

Russ

You will need to consider (at least!) the following...

1) Is the area in Greenbelt, Special Scientific Interest (SSI), Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) AONB... or similar.. If it is, then it may well be difficult (but not necessarily impossible) to gain Planning Permission. I would suggest talking, informally to the Duty Case Officer of your Local Planning Authority (LPA)..

2) Access and parking, where are these people who will stay there going to leave their vehicles and get access to their holiday home..

3) Building Control, you will have to consider insulating the holiday homes and of course drainage and power...

I would suggest talking to the LPA, before going too far down a route and engaging Architects or similar..

Phil

[russ_a]

Cheers Phil, Thought it would be probably best togive the planning folks a call first.

[scotal]

You might also want to consider how having holiday lets will affect your ability to remortgage. Whether it has any impact on your current mortgage (unlikely) and on the insurance on your home.

Lenders are dead funny about this sort of thing.