Bogie_Bear
LE
I'm wondering if some of the experts out here can help out. After selling our house myself, Mrs BB and young master BB moved into a mahoosive place here in the New Forest. House money effectively sat there as Monty's inheritance and education fund etc etc so we wanted to invest it wisely. Our house has an adjacent property which we understand in years gone by was the chauffeurs garage and upstairs accommodation. It is now dead space, and the plan was / is to convert it into an AirBnB summer let and short term let in the winter.
We submitted the necessary paperwork and planning apps and got chinned off:
Summary of the planning application to date:
1. We have an existing detached garage, two car length with a first floor on top of the front half. Has been like this for many years.
2. Anecdotal evidence from neighbours suggests that at some point people were living upstairs, a chauffeur and an old lady.
3. In the early summer we submitted an application to convert this into living accommodation. Kitchen/Lounge below and bedroom/shower above with an added internal staircase.
4. The date given for a decision was 29th Sept, then pushed out to 12th October. As yet no final decision given. However I chased up my local ward councillor to find out what is happening, and the advice is that it will be refused as we are right on the edge of a zone 2 flood area and apparently Bournemouth, Poole and Chrsitchurch council (BCP) have a policy not to grant a new dwelling in an area of flood risk.The edge of the flood zone runs down the middle of the road in front of our house (which seems flat to the naked eye) and finishes two houses to our left.
5. In our view this is not a new dwelling. The building is aleady there, there will be no external changes, only internal. They say we
might be able to apply for its use as ancillary to the main building, but that would necessitate removing the bathroom and kitchen from the plans. Quite how that would work if someone was sleeping there and had to walk across the garden at night in the rain to go to the loo, I don't know.
Frankly, bit stumped at this point and any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Doing this is so important to us as Monty has just started nursery and the income from this per month should effectively cover this substantial monthly outgoing until he reaches 3 and gets his statutory 30hours a week. After that a nice little pension fund.
Again any help really appreciated.
We submitted the necessary paperwork and planning apps and got chinned off:
Summary of the planning application to date:
1. We have an existing detached garage, two car length with a first floor on top of the front half. Has been like this for many years.
2. Anecdotal evidence from neighbours suggests that at some point people were living upstairs, a chauffeur and an old lady.
3. In the early summer we submitted an application to convert this into living accommodation. Kitchen/Lounge below and bedroom/shower above with an added internal staircase.
4. The date given for a decision was 29th Sept, then pushed out to 12th October. As yet no final decision given. However I chased up my local ward councillor to find out what is happening, and the advice is that it will be refused as we are right on the edge of a zone 2 flood area and apparently Bournemouth, Poole and Chrsitchurch council (BCP) have a policy not to grant a new dwelling in an area of flood risk.The edge of the flood zone runs down the middle of the road in front of our house (which seems flat to the naked eye) and finishes two houses to our left.
5. In our view this is not a new dwelling. The building is aleady there, there will be no external changes, only internal. They say we
might be able to apply for its use as ancillary to the main building, but that would necessitate removing the bathroom and kitchen from the plans. Quite how that would work if someone was sleeping there and had to walk across the garden at night in the rain to go to the loo, I don't know.
Frankly, bit stumped at this point and any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Doing this is so important to us as Monty has just started nursery and the income from this per month should effectively cover this substantial monthly outgoing until he reaches 3 and gets his statutory 30hours a week. After that a nice little pension fund.
Again any help really appreciated.
