What we can deliver for you

Commercial

Are your buildings and facilities holding your business back?

Does your building portfolio carry opportunities not yet realised?

Have you maxed out your current building's capacity?

Are you an expanding business, looking for new premises, to meet your growth targets?

Are you an investor, looking to increase your commercial portfolio?

If you have answered YES to any of the above, we have the experience in both new build commercial projects and extension of existing premises, so let's get together and have a chat about how we can help you move your business plans forward.

You may already have the building stock, but are unsure of what use would maximise your return on investment?

Re-use of redundant building stock can provide a justifiable route through planning. Did you know that there are many different technical methods of enhancing existing buildings to bring them up to and beyond current building performance requirements. Many organisations have redundant building stock, let us help you take the sustainable approach to the re-use of existing investments.

Domestic

Working closely with you, from the outset, our aim is to understand how you want your home to work for you. For many, it is just the basic requirement for more space to accommodate modern living styles. For others, they love their location, but don’t love their property.

As times change, so do people’s approaches to how they live. As families grown, working practices change and you re-evaluate your priorities, these all influence how you need your home to work for you.

Whether looking to extend or just reconfigure your existing space, we can guide you in making these decisions to best suit your needs.

We will undertake a full assessment of your property and offer guidance and suggestion on how best to achieve your desired result, by taking the time to understand what you love and what frustrates you, we can offer a different perspective on how to make your property work for you.

Some extensions may be permissible under the permitted development legislation, but not all, and we would advise anyone looking to extend their property, even if they think it will meet the permitted development rules to check with their local authority and get the appropriate plans and building regulations in place.

We can assist in the interpretation of the legislation, getting a record of consent to develop and providing drawings suitable for building control.

Class Q -
Barn Conversions

Using permitted development rights to create your country home.

In 2014 a planning policy was introduced to allow for the conversion of agricultural buildings. This permitted development right, allows for the conversion of a barn into a residential home.

As with all permitted development rights, there are certain criteria that need to be met, as a concise overview, these are –

The building must have been used for agricultural purposes on 20th March 2013, if redundant before this date, proof needs to be supplied of its agricultural use. If the building was built after this date, it must have been used for agricultural purposes for 10 years.
An agricultural tenancy cannot have been terminated within 1 year of the application.

Class Q can be used in place of full planning, offering a more straightforward route to building a home in the countryside.

The total floorspace of larger buildings cannot exceed 465 m2. However, there is potential to build 3 large buildings >100m2 or 5 smaller dwellings <100m2.

Partial demolition is permitted but extending the buildings in anyway is not permitted. Therefore, maximising the external space is a must.

Structural works are permitted to allow the function of a building as a dwellinghouse, such as installing or replacing roof, windows, doors etc., but the current structure must be capable of functioning as a residence without the structural additions or reinforcements.

The replacement or installation of services such as electricity, gas, water and drainage are also permitted.

If you’re planning a Class Q barn conversion or you’re unsure about the eligibility of your property, we’re here to help with all aspects of design and planning.

New Builds

It’s a common dream that many of us have, the ability to build your own home, but unfortunately one few of us get to realise.

Availability of plots, finances, where to start are all some of the hurdles that you will come across in the journey to realising your dream.

Whilst we cannot help in finding your ideal plot, we can help in designing the home you have always wanted within your budget.

WTAD Ltd offer a hands-on personalised service tailored to suit your specific needs. Approaching each new build project with a holistic mindset, we will be honest with our advice throughout the process and have the skills and experience to deliver the details you require to reach your dream.

If you are short on time, we offer flexible appointment times to fit around your buy lifestyle

Planning Enforcement

Served with an Enforcement Notice, Planning contravention notice or received a warning letter? Don’t panic!

Receiving a letter from planning enforcement can be alarming. In most cases, you have been reported to the planning department for erecting an extension or structure without the correct planning in place. Planning enforcement notices are becoming more commonplace, as, the permitted development rules that where introduced can be misleading.

Most of the time, to address the enforcement notice, you will need to submit a retrospective planning application, these are done in much the same way as a standard planning application, through the local authority, but will require detailed drawings of what has been built and what was there before.

The good news is, once you have engaged a team of professionals to deal with your planning enforcement notice, they will get in touch with the officer in charge of your case and this will halt any further action being taken against you, once they are informed of what the plan is to deal with the structure in question.