Hi

We live in a green belt area and are planning to demolish our property and rebuild. Planning policy stipulates that we are able to demolish the property but we cannot build anything materially larger than the existing building. We had been told that often with rebuilds, your PD rights are removed as a condition of the planning being granted. As we haven’t used any PD rights on the existing property and we intend on rebuilding within the guidelines of ‘not materially larger’ could our PD rights be removed if we are granted permission? I don’t know if this is relevant but we are applying to raise the ridge height by 1 to 1.5 metres. The reason for this question is that one planning officer has advised us that PD rights start again once a new property is built and a planning consultant has told us that the PD rights are likely to be removed in Article 4. I would be grateful of someone who has had experience or knowledge on this subject. Thank you.