Sight lines

yoloc

mickdw wrote: »

Firstly, the planning department will likely have an input into house design so hopefully your manufacturer can do bespoke designs.
Depending on where you are building it, the planning process could be quite involved. House type, site suitability for effluent disposal, your housing need in the area, sight distances at site access at Road. Whether the house can actually be accommodated in the landscape at your location.
In my opinion, you should firstly talk to a planning agent. If you site looks like a runner, you can look at the house you are proposing. You may run into building regulation issues with such a house depending on where it is manufactured.

What does this mean. I have been looking at a site just behind some land i own and its boundary would be about 40m of the road and surrounded in bushes. Would this be a problem for me when going for planning ?

mickdw

If the bushes are adjacent to the road on the surrounding land, they could be an issue for you. It's not only bushes that cause issue. A neighbouring fence that is right at the Road edge can cause problems.
To many variables to go into any more details really.

yoloc

mickdw wrote: »

If the bushes are adjacent to the road on the surrounding land, they could be an issue for you. It's not only bushes that cause issue. A neighbouring fence that is right at the Road edge can cause problems.
To many variables to go into any more details really.

The bushes would be between my land and this site ive got my eye on however there is a few gap's that could fit a road into it. The only way to the road is through my own land but it would be to wet for a house and would prefer to buy this site as its higher than my own. On my boundary onto the road i would have just a few bushes, none are more than a meter high. This road is in a cul-desac in the country. I have got planning on land near it before but selling the house now and would hope to get planning for a better upto date house. Whether i'll get planning again is another matter alltogether, esp in 2013 where planning is getting even more difficult to obtain.

mickdw

If it's a cul de sac, you can forget much of the sightline stuff imo.

yoloc

mickdw wrote: »

If it's a cul de sac, you can forget much of the sightline stuff imo.

Correct me if im wrong, isnt a sightline looking out both directions 60m when leaving a site.

muffler

Above posts moved from here where they were off topic

mickdw

Yes. There is a sight triangle that has to be clear from the exit point to a specific distance in either direction. The distance depends on speed limits etc but is usually significantly more than 60m in each direction.
If it's a cul de sac, depending on where you would be located and road layout, these distances might not apply as such.

john f 4g63

We had big issues with planning regarding sight lines when we were trying to get planning. We had to have 90m sight lines both up and down the road. That was fine but in order to achieve this we would have had to remove well over 100m of ditch which they did not want. Thankfully we moved the entrance and met them half way regarding how much ditch we could take.

yoloc

Does it matter if theres an entrance to a farmers field just across where im looking to make one into my land for an entrance into the site im looking at behind my land.