Hi The Council say you need planning permission for installing double glazing in our flat, as it is a flat not a house.
Now I look at their planning register over the last few months and according to this, no one at all has applied for PP for DG! Is the guy I spoke to was wrong, or are all the other people living in flats not bothering with this long and incredibly tedious procedure...?

My mum had DG put into her flat a year or so ago and no PP was required. That could vary of course between councils/types of property. Hers is a 1930s block.

We didn't need planning permission when we did ours. We just informed the management company when we'd be doing it, and made sure that we used FENSA installers - otherwise you have to get building regs approval.

It is impossible to say without knowing the full story. Just because some flats don't require PP it doesn't follow that all flats don't require it. There may be a covenant on the flats ofr they may be in a conservation area and this is why PP is needed. Go back to the council and ask them why PP is needed, if it is they will be able to tell you why.

Be careful before you go ahead that your freeholder/management company isn't planning on installing it in the near future anyway.....they could theoretically get you to remove yours and then charge you again to have theirs' installed. Been there, bought the tee shirt unfortunately

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Originally posted by N E Juan:
It is impossible to say without knowing the full story. Just because some flats don't require PP it doesn't follow that all flats don't require it. There may be a covenant on the flats ofr they may be in a conservation area and this is why PP is needed. Go back to the council and ask them why PP is needed, if it is they will be able to tell you why.

The planning officer actually said 'Permitted Development rights are for the use of single dwelling houses only. As your property is a flat and part of a Council Estate you will require planning permission to carry out the development you propose.'

Peapod, yeah, the council are planning to do it in the next few years, but if we get permission and change our lease, we can't be recharged (so they say!) So it's definitely worth it for us as the figure I got for them doing it was 4.5K against 2.6K for us doing it... Sorry you got recharged, I think it may happen to some people on my estate as the procedure for getting permission is not made at all easy.