Do I Need Planning Permission for an Annexe?

Interior of a modern micro apartment annexe with living room and kitchenette
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Looking after elderly parents, and children hanging around well into their 20s, are responsibilities that more homeowners are having to cope with.

Part of the answer to both problems can be to create an annexe to your home. This is a self-contained living space that is still used as part of the same house, within the same plot and within the same ownership.

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Ken Dijksman

Ken, a former planning officer, is an experienced planning consultant with over three decades of experience helping self builders, renovators and developers achieving planning permission. He set up his own consultancy, Dijksman Planning LLP, in 2005. He is also the author of The Planning Game, How to Play the System and Win Planning Consent: An Insider's Guide to Planning Permission for Newbuilds and Extensions.