Is planning permission out-of-date?

[neate]

Consent is given for a detached barn to be converted to a house. The barn is restructured in a barn-like fashion with a barn-like door. But only the shell of it has been completed. It has a roof of course but no windows, chimneys or normal outside doors.

Considerable time has passed. When it comes to finishing off the work, will planning permission have to be applied for again?

 

[xr4x4]

as long as you start the project and they know you have, subject to what work you have done.... then yes, once started, you can take forever and the permission still stands.

unless they have changed it!

 

[Richard C]

How long ago are we talking about here? Assuming the required Building Regulations plans submission or a Building Notice was submitted (which will prove when work started) & this was within the PP validity (3-5 years depending on when it was granted), there are generally no time constraints on completion once work has started.

 

[merlin50]

mine was started over twenty years ago never going to finish it

 

[^woody^]

mine was started over twenty years ago never going to finish it

Respect!

It's not just me then

 

[Richard C]

I was starting to worry because mine was 6 years & counting!

 

[Possel]

mine was started over twenty years ago never going to finish it

That's a bit like all those unfinished houses that you see in Greece (and elsewhere possibly) where the bottom bit is lived in but there are concrete piles stretching into the sky for the next storey. Apparently you only pay the taxes when you finish the building, so few people ever finish their building. No wonder they are bankrupt!