Certificate of Lawful Development Appeal Decisions by category of development.

The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995
Part 1 (as amended on 1 October 2008) 

Detached dwellings against other types of dwellings

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·       For the purposes of Class A, part A.1(e), where a property is attached at first floor level only to a neighbouring building, this can still be sufficient for the property to be classed as not detached.
[Source: November 2010 - Code a00151].

·       For the purposes of Class A, part A.1(e), where a property is attached for only part of its length to a neighbouring building, this can still be sufficient for the property to be classed as not detached.
[Source: November 2010 - Code a00151].

·       For the purposes of Class A, part A.1(e), where a property was originally detached but has subsequently become attached to a neighbouring building, this can still be sufficient for the property to be classed as not detached.
[Source: November 2010 - Code a00151].

·       For the purposes of Class B, part B.1(c), where two properties are angled, such that their side walls are separated at the front but are joined towards the rear by a common party wall (in this case by an original two storey block of a size considered to be not trivial or insignificant) then this can be sufficient for the properties to be considered as sharing a party wall for the purposes of the definition of a “terrace house”.
[Source July 2009 - Code a00009].

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