Just over two weeks to go until our brand new show!
Build your dream home with confidence
BOOK YOUR TWO FREE TICKETS HEREBuild your dream home with confidence
BOOK YOUR TWO FREE TICKETS HEREEstimate your project costs instantly with Build It's interactive self-build cost calculator
Calculate NowGet an accurate, detailed cost breakdown of your project
Submit plansI have a property, in a conservation area, with a large garden, at the bottom of which was once a “dwelling”. As a building did once exist on this plot, would I have any chance of being able to build a replacement?
Where a dwelling existed in the past, but has now disappeared altogether, it doesn’t provide any kind of precedent or justification for a new house, from a planning principle point of view.
However, in a Conservation Area, if a new house was acceptable in principle, the historic precedent might prove helpful in terms of any concerns about possible impacts on the character of the area.
A new house would need to be acceptable in principle – perhaps because you’re within a settlement boundary as defined in a local or neighbourhood plan. If that is the case and other planning issues like access and effects on neighbours are all acceptable, then you have a potential plot to deal with. The house design and layout then needs to preserve the character and appearance of the Conservation Area.
– Mike Dade, Build It expert