Bee11
Member
Wondering if anyone has been through a similar situation and could provide some advice please! I want to use my spare bedroom for a wax salon: no building work or structural changes; the room would still be used as our guest bedroom with a sofa bed; our home would remain predominately a private residence; the hours would be part time and wouldn’t be abnormal times for a residential area; I’d only have one client at a time, with time in between clients also so there wouldn’t be a crossover; I have a private driveway where clients could park; there wouldn’t be any marked increase in traffic or deliveries or anything like that which could affect neighbours; I wouldn’t have any signage or physical advertising.
From everything I have researched on gov.uk and the planning permission website, I shouldn’t need planning permission for this as there is no material change of use to the building (it stays a private residence first, a business second). However when I called up the council to run it past them the lady on the phone said I would need to apply for planning permission, including to-scale drawings from an architect of my property and the whole street! This would be a very expensive process before even setting up the business
Has anyone else gone through this? Did you go down the planning permission route?
Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated as it could ruin all my plans and it might not even be accurate information. A lot of questions I asked on the phone she couldn’t answer and just kept saying I’m better off applying for planning permission.
From everything I have researched on gov.uk and the planning permission website, I shouldn’t need planning permission for this as there is no material change of use to the building (it stays a private residence first, a business second). However when I called up the council to run it past them the lady on the phone said I would need to apply for planning permission, including to-scale drawings from an architect of my property and the whole street! This would be a very expensive process before even setting up the business
Has anyone else gone through this? Did you go down the planning permission route?
Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated as it could ruin all my plans and it might not even be accurate information. A lot of questions I asked on the phone she couldn’t answer and just kept saying I’m better off applying for planning permission.