The LDF again

Planning permission to create a flat within an existing building has been turned down on the sole ground that it cannot be divided.

On the blog page for today, Councillor Meredith details a case where the LDF rules again make a nonsense.

So if you would like to sell part of your large garden, or convert within your large house, to increase the housing stock, then you must propose at least two new dwellings, so that at least 35% of them may be built as affordable (i.e. cheap) homes. If you have space for only one, then you must somehow acquire more land, and suggest that scattered developments are really one scheme.

It should be added that, should you succeed, your development will count as part of the LDF maximum numbers permitted over the next 9 years, of some 300 dwellings.