I have been volunteered to draw the plans for my Mother's extension to her dining room.
I am a Draughtsman by trade but I am not an Architect or Builder and I have only seen one proposal drawing - and I dont even know if that was any
good.
Can anyone point me to a website that will show some examples? I have had a look but I cant seem to find anything to help me.
I have known members of the public who have drawn their own plans. It can't be that hard, they weren't exactly the brightest of people.
The parameters I am working to are:
1:100 Existing side and rear elevations
1:100 Proposed side and rear elevations
1:50 Existing plan and proposed plan of extension
1:50 Sectional side view of proposed plan of extension
A not to scale location plan (traced off Google Earth)
A load of text that I have been given to copy.
Can anyone give me any pointers?
Thanks, David.
Look through 'planning portal' or on your local authority's website.
Please u2u me.
Your local district council website would be a good start, here's ours which has PDFs of all the planning applications submitted in the last few months
I think that plans submitted for planning permission and building regulations approval can be viewed at the local authority offices. This is certainly
the case
when a household is notified of a development at a nearby property and they are invited to view the submitted plans to see if they have any
concerns.
So, if you view details of similar features to you have, on professionally produced drawings, you should get the main requirements. You can then take
these to the LA for informal discussion before submission.
Mal.
I love this website.
Just having a look at the 'planning portal' now.
Thank you very much - I would never have guessed something like that even existed.
You have u2u.
Novice question - can planning permission and building regulations approval be part of the same drawing submission or are they seperate departments/processes?
Technically they can overlap.
Although loose and dumbed down... Planning permission checks the position and asthetics and problems that they arise; building regs check safety,
structure, construction method.
A lot more two it that that but lets put it this way learning the differnece between the two etc is probably 20 hours of lectures!
But usually (variation depending on country and authority) one set of documents submitted at once. If they arent interested theyll ignore it.
[Edited on 12/606/0707 by JamJah]
Our extension is just being finished, we submitted a simple set of plans to get through planning permission which just outlined the 'look'
of the project, then had much more detail added to the plans for building regs. That way it saves redoing the detailed plans if your initial proposal
gets rejected by planning...
We were lucky and got through planning and regs first time though!
Another linky for your perusal:
Warwick DC planning search
I don't know if it's still the same or if it applies country wide for that matter.
When I had my last extension done we didn't even apply for building regs approval. We did it on a building notice.
This basically means you have to trust your builder implicitly.
You build the extension and they inspect as you go to confirm that you are within the regs.
The down side is they can tell you to change things as you go which is why you need a very good local builder who knows EXACTLY what is required.
Although you could technically use a BN, it is hightly not recommended.
Bromley Council kinda hit it on the spot with a list of suitible uses:
quote:
*domestic internal alterations;
*removal of a load bearing wall;
*small domestic extension;
*alterations to domestic drainage;
*fitting a new load bearing bay window;
*replacement windows.
Hows things going? Submitted yet?