Punishment for extra demolition?

[The Rotrex Kid]

My gran lives on quite a quiet street locally, a few years back there was planning granted on an old orchard that her house backs onto. No problems there.

Her house is a semi detached bungalow, the orchard belonged to the left hand side of the next pair of semi detatched bunglows along (let’s call my grans pair 54 & 52, the orchard belonged to 50 which is attached to 48)

The plans were approved to demolish 48 to grant access to the orchard allowing construction of the 5 new bungalows, but 50 was supposed to be left standing.

I drove past last week and 48 had been taken down, having driven past today, 50 has now been flattened. It’s a shame as it’s completely ruined the street, but there we go, it’s gone now.

My question is really, is the developer just going to get a slap on the wrist? Seems a big diversion from approved planning to just knock down another (attached) building and I suspect it happened ‘by accident’…….

[loskie]

Report it and see. Otherwise who knows?

[Simpo Two]

I seem to remember a case 2-3 years ago where someone illegally demolished a house one night with a bulldozer and was ordered to rebuild it. No idea if he did.

[Hill92]

Have you checked the local council planning portal in case the planning permission was updated?

[Steve H]

Is there a planning offence in demolishing a building?

I think that if you knock a building down you need a new permission to replace it but I have no idea if there are any restrictions on the actual demolition other than any building regs/H&S around how you do it??

[loskie]

When you do not need it
Some building projects do not need planning permission. This is known as ‘permitted development rights’.

Building projects that normally have permitted development rights include:

industrial premises and warehouses
some outdoor signs and advertisements - though there are special rules around adverts
demolition - but before you begin you must get approval to demolish from your local planning authority (LPA) through your local council
There are other projects that might not need planning permission - for example, projects that will have no impact on your neighbours or the environment. If you think this could apply to your project, check with your LPA through your local council.

https://www.gov.uk/planning-permission-england-wal...

[Steve H]

So demolition is usually covered by permitted development, but you have to get permission from the LPA anyway. Clearly a government operation .

Sounds like some kind of consent should have been given here then

[The Rotrex Kid]

Hill92 said:

Have you checked the local council planning portal in case the planning permission was updated?

They have (in the last few days) submitted details to discharge some of the conditions on the planning but no mention or changes about the now gone bungalow.

[RSTurboPaul]

The Rotrex Kid said:

Hill92 said:

Have you checked the local council planning portal in case the planning permission was updated?

They have (in the last few days) submitted details to discharge some of the conditions on the planning but no mention or changes about the now gone bungalow.

The planning portal on the local authority website should have a map or at least a search engine that you can use to investigate the situation on number 50.