Mid Beds Council have declined to accept our new design as a modification of the approved plans so we have to submit a new planning application. This has two effects - firstly a significant delay while drawing up a complete planning application which will take a least two months before being considered. Secondly, it means that we become subject to the contentious "106 Agreement" which councils are using to apply a levy on new house builds (in effect a "new house tax").
This 106 Agreement was originally designed to provide benefit to an area through getting a developer to provided ameneties. However, many councils are now treating the 106 Agreement as a simple tax raising vehicle and have a scale of charges depending on the size of the property (ies). We have been told that a new application of similar size to the approved plan for our plot will now cost us over £12,500 based on a single three bedroomed property. Worse still, this has to be paid before any building can start.
Our design is basically a one bedroomed house so we'll have to see what they make of that!
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the dirty dirty bastards!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo
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