Re: Re: When can you carry out Exempted Dev?

I’ve been involved in a number of housing schemes, where extensions (which would be exempted development if constructed to an existing dwelling) have been constructed, prior to completion of the dwelling and nobody (solicitors or otherwise) have ever queried the practice.

I have noticed of late that some planning authorities include a condition requiring planning permission for any extension or other exempted development to a dwelling irrespective of whether exempted or not under the Planning and Development Acts and Regulations. The main reason, from what I can gather for the inclusion of the condition is to collect additional development charges, rather than development control.