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The general rule is you can’t build without planning permission. If you have a plot of land which has planning permission to build a house, you can immediately sell it for tens of thousands of pounds. If it doesn’t have planning permission, it’s just grass, and you will get next to nothing for it. It’s the existence of a planning permission which multiplies its value hundreds of times.
It’s just like the plot of land with planning permission – see ‘Planning permission is worth big money’ above. There is a value in the right to build. Land is just land. But land with a right to build a house is worth something. A 2 bedroom house is worth whatever a 2 bedroom house is worth. But a 2 bedroom house with planning permission to add an extra bedroom and bathroom must be worth more to a buyer. For two reasons:
Permission to build is guaranteed. The permission is in place. Our report will prove it. You just have to show the buyer the report.
The profit is guaranteed. The added value of having a 3 bedroom house with 2 bathrooms, over a 2 bedroom house with 1 bathroom, is a lot more than the cost of the building works to get there.
A smart buyer will offer you the value of the house as it is. He will hope to pay you nothing for the development potential. But remember, this is development potential you already own, and you will be handing it over for nothing. If you had planning permission to build an extra house in the garden, you would expect a lot for it. Why wouldn’t you expect something for the right to build an extension to the existing house?
So far it is just talk. You don’t know if you have any of these rights or not. Our report will show conclusively whether you do.
You won’t want to pay £200 for a report if there isn’t much chance of you getting the good news that you have valuable rights. The valuable rights we are talking about here, are the rights to extend your house by 10-15% of its present size (in cubic capacity) without needing planning permission.
Here’s a simple test: you may very well have these valuable rights if.
you own a house (not a flat) which has never been extended,
OR,
You own an older house which has been extended, but all the extensions took place before 1948
AND,
The property is not a listed building or in a conservation area
If you have GDO rights, then you have planning permission – you just didn’t realize it. In fact, GDO rights are better than planning permission, because it’s the equivalent of a planning permission where you are allowed to fill in the blanks to say what development you want to carry out.
These are some of the things you – or your buyers - could do:
- convert the loft and straighten the sloping roof. or even raise the roof
- extend your kitchen to take in the side passage, and make it a large kitchen-diner
- add a sun room and patio
- build a garage
- build a granny flat on top of the garage
the only limitation is that the extension must take up no more than 10% or 15% extra space, but that’s easy.
Your ‘GDO rights’ are your rights to do building works at your home without needing planning permission. They come from a law called The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order – hence ‘GDO’. (You can see why it needed shortening.)
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