Legal Question

sutty · March 1, 2011

Basically, our house has a plot of land out the back, but the back portion of that land slopes away to make it very hard to use.

So we put in some decking to extend out the garden and make that usuable. We knew that some c*** would complain so we contacted the planning office and they indicated that they did not believe that the think needed planning permission. Somebody reported us to the planning office (as expected round our way) and they came to inspect.

They've said that it needs a retrosprective planning application to be made now which is causing mrs s a s*** load of stress (she's pregnant and stressy at the best of times anyway).

I've had a quick look into it and it appears that basically what we have is class F development under the Town and Country Planning act which is permissable development assuming that the building is on the curtilage of the property.

Are there any legal types who know the legal definition of curtilage? I'm a bit confused on what basis she has made the decision that this is not permissable development.

Cobs · March 1, 2011

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