TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 (AS AMENDED)

THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (MODIFICATION AND DISCHARGE OF PLANNING OBLIGATIONS) REGULATIONS 1992

We discharge or remove Section 106 planning obligations or agreements restricting occupancy to local need, affordable housing or holiday let. In Gwynedd, Powys, Anglesey Ynys Mon, Conwy, Denbighshire Dinbych, Flintshire Fflint, Wrexham Wrecsam, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouth, Cornwall, Yorkshire Dales, Lake District or anywhere else in Wales and England, the UK in fact. Also wrongly described as affordable occupancy restriction for a local person. If your house has one and the dwelling does not meet any reasonable definition of an 'affordable home or dwelling' please contact us ASAP, we will remove it for you. In many cases the agreement is "fatally flawed" in that the wording renders it unenforceable and therefore does not serve a proper planning function or "useful purpose" as local authority planning officers like to believe.

Here is just one example of many removed to date:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/7726862.stm

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/house-sale-ban-is-overturned-2805164

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/porthmadog-couple-win-fight-over-2804806

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/blow-key-gwynedd-housing-policy-2746754

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/rules-relaxed-buying-homes-rural-2737817

An EU Judgement in Joined Cases C-197/11 and C203/11

http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2013-05/cp130057en.pdf

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/new-blow-welsh-language-communities-3901514

If you have an agricultural occupancy restriction or tie we can also help you. Fisheries a speciality.

Also able to assist with Certificates of Lawful Development

Probably the lowest fees in the country!

People who borrowed to build homes could become “mortgage prisoners” due to onerous planning restrictions placed on them by local authorities, Evan Owen has warned.

The former adviser and founder of the IFA Defence Union, said there was a lack of providers offering finance for homes as they have section 106 planning conditions of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 imposed on them.

This means that consumers could lose money on mortgage arrangement fees, or they could be unable to secure a mortgage or remortgage on their property.

Gwynedd-based Mr Owen said: “These conditions are common on new property developments in rural areas such as Wales, Cornwall, the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales.

“They mean that people building a new home often have to adhere to strict conditions to get planning consent, such as ensuring the occupants are local and that any future sale is at an affordable cost to the local community.

“Houses in some cases have to be put on the market at 60 per cent of the market value. This can leave homeowners with negative equity and the reality is that most mortgage providers, and to that matter equity release providers, will not touch them, and if they do, they are seen as of a higher risk.”

It means a borrower could have spent thousands of pounds on fees before finding out that they cannot get finance on the property.

However, if they do, they could find themselves stuck with the same provider at vastly increased rates, or unable to remortgage as the provider deems them to be too risky.

Industry Comment

Council of Mortgage Lenders spokesman Bernard Clarke agreed that lenders were cautious when presented with a section 106 case in these circumstances, and that the CML had lobbied local authorities over the issue.

He said: “Mortgages are secured on property. If there are barriers limiting the potential to sell the property, it is bound to be a concern for the lender.

“The more restrictive the planning agreement, the more a lender sees it as a risk and, consequently, they will be less likely to lend on that case. Most lenders will consider each case on its individual merits, but these types of restrictions do limit the pool of lenders.

Adviser Comment

Glyn Jones, owner of north Denbighshire-based Vale Financial Services, said: “This is definitely a problem. I have experienced a few of these cases and they tend to prove very restrictive when seeking finance. It’s basically creating another type of mortgage prisoner as the lenders will just find it easier to stay away from properties of this type.”

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