As businesses continuously grow, business owners tend to extend their properties or locations in order to accommodate the increasing number of customers, as well as to gain more profit. In order to proceed with the extension, a business must first obtain a business planning permission.
Planning permission for expanding an old business structures or building is done under the guidance of the government and in line with the borough planning regulations. A business premises that will be undergoing only minor extensions or will be putting another building within the same location may not be obliged to a planning application. It is possible that it had been already permissible, as stated under Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning or the General Permitted Development Order 1995. The planning permission is required only if a factory or a warehouse will be undergoing an extension that could affect the outside appearance of the business facility, or when it reaches the limit of the site for about five metres or if it could lessen the available amount of space required for parking and turning of the vehicles.
Planning permission is typically not a requisite for the changes done inside the buildings or for minimal external changes, such as installing telephone connections or setting up an alarm box. It is also not required for other minimal extensions, such as the construction of low level fences and walls which are one metre high facing on a footpath or a highway and two metres high in other directions. If a specific application is not a requisite, a general planning permission is acceptable.
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