Planning on compassionate grounds????

Cmpower

Wondering if anyone knows if there is anyway to speed up a planning application. We submitted it September 1st and was told today conditional planning should be granted October 18th and then it goes to Bord Pleanala for 4 weeks and then we've to wait another 2 weeks before we start...We just want to convert the garage and turn it into a wet room. My Dad had a stroke and is currently in a Nursing Home..he is desperate to get home, my mother heartbroken and is ready to care for him at home but we need house altered in order for us to manage him. Does anyone know can it be speeded up on compassionate grounds or do we have to weather the storm! Can't see him home by Xmas at this stage and haven't the heart to tell either of them...any advice!!

gozunda

Cmpower wrote: »

Wondering if anyone knows if there is anyway to speed up a planning application. We submitted it September 1st and was told today conditional planning should be granted October 18th and then it goes to Bord Pleanala for 4 weeks and then we've to wait another 2 weeks before we start...We just want to convert the garage and turn it into a wet room. My Dad had a stroke and is currently in a Nursing Home..he is desperate to get home, my mother heartbroken and is ready to care for him at home but we need house altered in order for us to manage him. Does anyone know can it be speeded up on compassionate grounds or do we have to weather the storm! Can't see him home by Xmas at this stage and haven't the heart to tell either of them...any advice!!

Is the garage attached?

Cmpower

Yes ...semi detached house. Garages joined. ..garage other side converted with a roof

Metric Tensor

The time for a decision is anywhere from 5 weeks to 8 weeks and it is almost always right on the 8 weeks with most local authorities. Anything less than that is a bonus - your 18th October date is less than 8 weeks from lodging so you're already getting a bit. The first 5 weeks and the 4 between decision and grant are set out in law so totally immovable.

Push your local representatives and the planners for a decision after 5 weeks ... that's as far as you will be able to get in terms of dates.

Obviously nobody on this forum can give advice regarding rule breaking ...

sydthebeat

Agreed.

Id second the statement that we are not allowed to give RULE BREAK advice here.

And any advice to BREAK THE RULES by GOING AHEAD WITH THE ALTERNATION NOW would be seen to be unprofessional.

muffler

sydthebeat wrote: »

BREAK THE RULES by GOING AHEAD WITH THE ALTERNATION NOW would be seen to be unprofessional.

Have seen it done (successfully) numerous times but as you say it is unprofessional to suggest this never mind the breaching of the forum charter

Calahonda52

Why have you the ABP piece in there, are you expecting an objection?

I was talking to a friend about this and he asked the following questions:

This is not advice

What works are envisaged in the planning application: are they adding in a window at the front and changing the roof.
If they only need the garage for the wet room then do they have to change the front of the house to get that piece done?
a wet room is not a habitable room so easier to get done.

rayjdav

If it is only converting the attached garage to habitable, it does not require permission under Class 1 of exempted development.

CLASS 1
The extension of a house, by the
construction or erection of an extension
(including a conservatory) to the rear of the
house or by the conversion for use as part
of the house of any garage, store, shed or
other similar structure attached to the rear
or to the side of the house.

Gumbo

Cmpower wrote: »

Yes ...semi detached house. Garages joined. ..garage other side converted with a roof

Why didn’t you the exempted development route?