Introduction of Additional Planning Restrictions
Information sheet reference number
EN/CR/IN/A4/49
The direction
An Article 4(1) Direction has been introduced to provide additional town planning controls for dwellings in the Queen’s Park Conservation Area. This takes effect on 4 June 2022.
Residents in conservation areas generally anticipate that there will be additional planning controls over and above those that may apply outside conservation areas. Now, in any conservation area, an owner has to obtain the council’s consent before carrying out demolition works and must give notice before pruning or felling a tree. Planning permission is required for building roof extensions and dormers, applying stone, timber or tile cladding to any façade or erecting a satellite dish on a chimney or on the front façade or a roof slope that faces onto and is visible from the street. Greater restrictions also apply to the size of rear extensions that a house owner may build without planning permission.
Until now however windows, doors, roofs and boundary walls, which are the key architectural elements of any house, could be changed without the need for planning permission; and the appearance of the conservation area could be harmed as a consequence.