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Home extension freedoms begin today.
(From Government News Network)
] COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT 232 1 October 2008 Home extension freedoms begin today
Improving your home just became a whole lot easier for tens of thousands of families Housing and Planning Minister Caroline Flint announced today.
Following regulations laid on the 10 September the new planning rules coming in effect today mean that the majority of homeowners will no longer need to get planning permission to extend their home.
The changes allow people to extend their home up and out for the first time without needing to pay the costs (up to GBP1000) or wait weeks to get planning permission to start building.
About 80,000 households will now find it easier to improve their homes because they no longer have to go through the bureaucratic hurdles of the planning system.
Importantly carefully calculated size limits on these permitted extensions mean the new rules strike the right balance between helping homeowners to better their home and protecting neighbours against larger inappropriate or intrusive extensions.
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