'Minor Amendment' to existing planning application

bemak

My wife and I are considering buying a house in a new estate being built in Kildare. The phase we are interested in has yet to go to site. I'd like to put my own slant on the internal layout to make it work better for us - nothing too major, although one change I would like to make is to open up the kitchen/dining area more on the rear elevation at ground floor level so that it makes the most of the garden.

From a planning point of view the changes are minor (no additional floor area is being added and overlooking is not an issue). If I were to make these changes to an existing house I would not require planning however, as the newly built houses will require sign-off by someone else, will I be required to submit a 'minor amendment' application or similar?

I'd like to know what's involved before we consider going down this route. I can't imagine that we'd need to go down the route of a full blown planning application but I would imagine that some form of 'minor amendment' application will be required, if such a thing still exists. Something along the lines of:

- Application Fee.
- Cover Letter - referencing existing planning permission for estate
- Letter of Consent from Developer/Owner
- Site plan indicating location of house within the proposed estate
- Drawing of existing house type
- Drawing of existing house type illustrating minor changes (i.e. larger glazing to garden).

Thanks for any advice!

Gumbo

bemak wrote: »

My wife and I are considering buying a house in a new estate being built in Kildare. The phase we are interested in has yet to go to site. I'd like to put my own slant on the internal layout to make it work better for us - nothing too major, although one change I would like to make is to open up the kitchen/dining area more on the rear elevation at ground floor level so that it makes the most of the garden.

From a planning point of view the changes are minor (no additional floor area is being added and overlooking is not an issue). If I were to make these changes to an existing house I would not require planning however, as the newly built houses will require sign-off by someone else, will I be required to submit a 'minor amendment' application or similar?

I'd like to know what's involved before we consider going down this route. I can't imagine that we'd need to go down the route of a full blown planning application but I would imagine that some form of 'minor amendment' application will be required, if such a thing still exists. Something along the lines of:

- Application Fee.
- Cover Letter - referencing existing planning permission for estate
- Letter of Consent from Developer/Owner
- Site plan indicating location of house within the proposed estate
- Drawing of existing house type
- Drawing of existing house type illustrating minor changes (i.e. larger glazing to garden).

Thanks for any advice!

In the words of Conor Mc Gregor "You'll do nothing"
Its still an internal alteration that's planning exempt, including the rear glazed section.

The hard part of this process will be convincing the developer to do these changes before he gets full sign off from his Assigned Certifier, and most wont make any alterations at the risk of you pulling out.

bemak

Ya I want to make this as risk-free as possible for the developer so I would offer to submit a Section 5 Declaration just to ease his fears. I could even eek out a small bit more area to the rear if I was cheeky enough. An additional 3.6sqm would make a world of difference off the dining room (squaring it off).

Gumbo

bemak wrote: »

Ya I want to make this as risk-free as possible for the developer so I would offer to submit a Section 5 Declaration just to ease his fears. I could even eek out a small bit more area to the rear if I was cheeky enough. An additional 3.6sqm would make a world of difference off the dining room (squaring it off).

That may prove more difficult.
I suspect the builder will not carry out these works until after you have closed.

sydthebeat

Remember, you cannot extend a building that isn't built.

So building it 3.65m bigger would require permission.

bemak

sydthebeat wrote: »

Remember, you cannot extend a building that isn't built.

So building it 3.65m bigger would require permission.

or retention! but ya, I think to have some hope, I was thinking this morning that maybe getting the bigger openings would be enough of a win!