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Planning

Listed buildings, conservation areas, flats, shopfronts and ordinary rear walls. 9 guides.

• Ruling

  Article 4 directions

  An Article 4 direction removes permitted development rights that might otherwise have existed. In those streets, even small external changes can need.

• Ruling

  Fitting first and applying later

  Retrospective applications exist and they also fail. A refused retrospective consent can come with a requirement to remove the shutters.

• Ruling

  Flats and permitted development

  Flats do not enjoy the same householder permitted development rights as a dwellinghouse. An external shutter on a flat is very likely to need planning.

• Ruling

  Northern Ireland

  Northern Ireland runs its own planning system. A British manufacturer's 'no permission needed' line is not advice in Belfast.

• Long note

  Planning permission for external shutters

  External shutters change the outside of a building, so planning is a real question. Listed buildings and conservation areas are the strict cases, flats.

• Ruling

  Scotland

  Scottish planning and building standards are not the English GPDO with a thistle on the letterhead. Tenements add the factor.

• Ruling

  Shopfront applications

  External shutters on shops are a normal planning application, often with design guidance that prefers vision curtains, demountable internal grilles, or.

• Ruling

  Wales

  Wales has its own planning policy and permitted development order. Conservation areas and listed buildings remain the hard cases.

• Ruling

  What a planner wants to see

  A useful drawing shows the box projection, the colour, the guide width and the shutter both open and closed. A catalogue photo of a German house is not.