Prior Approval, Planning and Building Control

The permissions route and the professional team you need

Turning a commercial building into homes means passing through two separate consent systems, planning and building control, which answer completely different questions. This book explains both in plain English, and the professional team you need to get through them. It sets out the permissions that decide whether your building can lawfully become homes at all, so you check everything against your specific site before you buy. You will see why every relationship in the project team needs a proper written contract, and the duties the law places on you personally once you commission building work. The tax chapter explains how the rules can hand back a large slice of profit to the developer who understands them, including reliefs that are easy to miss. An ordered compliance checklist turns the moving parts into a sequence, and the final chapter explains what getting it wrong costs, from a building that cannot lawfully be converted to a job that is stopped. Next in this series: “Funding Bigger Projects”.

What’s inside

• The legal framework in plain English
• Permissions, licensing and planning
• The contracts, and what must be inside them
• Insurance, safety and your legal duties
• Tax treatment and choosing a structure
• Your compliance checklist
• Getting this wrong, what it actually costs

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