General Maintenance
You do not need to apply for planning permission:
for repairs or maintenance;
for minor improvements, such as painting your house or
replacing windows;
for internal alterations;
for the insertion of windows, skylights or roof lights (but,
if you want to create a new bay window, it will be treated as an
extension of the house);
for the installation of solar panels which, in the council's
view, do not project significantly beyond the roof slope; and
to re-roof your house (but additions to the roof are treated
as extensions to the house).
Occasionally, you may need to apply for planning permission
for some of these works because the Borough has made an Article 4
Direction withdrawing permitted development
rights. In this Borough there is only one Artice
4 direction for areas around Doddington Hall.
If you live in a listed building, you will need listed
building consent for any significant works whether internal or
external . You also may need planning permission to alter, repair
or maintain a gate, fence, wall or other means of enclosure.
If you live in a Conservation Area you will need to apply for
planning permission before cladding the outside of your house with
stone, tiles, artificial stone, plastic or timber.