How to buy a house with planning Permission agreement?

Hello.

I hope I'm posting in the right forum. I am very interested in putting an offer on a house. The house needs work done - quie a lot actually - but it has a large garden and vendor told me should be no problem to get planning permission to extend.

Before I make a serious offer, I would like to find out if planning permissin would be agreed. Also, I would like to hire an Architect or Draftsman to draw up the plans first. Can I do this when I don't own the house? But I don't want to make an offer and then end up finding out down the line that planning permission was not allowed...house useless to me unless can extend and modernise.

Can anyone advise me where to start.

Thanks

Anna

Why not contact the local council, speak to an official in the planning dept., tell the where the house is and ask them if there could foresee any difficulty in extending.

It might save you a lot of leg work.

"vendor told me should be no problem to get planning permission to extend"

don't believe a word the vendor says, they will tell you anything to sell it

1. look at any neighbouring houses, has anyone else extended similar to what you want to do ? this would set a good precedent when talking to the planning department

2. as mentioned above talk informally with the planning department

2. check the local authority website for recent planning decisions in the area, or hire an architect on an hourly rate to do this for you and to make an assessment on the feasibility of planning, although they can't guarantee you will be successful

3. how large is the extension ? subject to certain conditions you could build up to 40sqm extension to the rear WITHOUT planning permission. again if you don't feel confident checking this, an architect could do it for you as a feasibility study for a fixed sum
guidance here > http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/DevelopmentandHousing/Planning/FileDownLoad,1586,en.pdf

I can help you with this, please take a look at my web-site and / or contact me at info@livingroom.ie.

Never trust the vendor! i put an offer on a house which had been granted planning but had since expired. No biggie until an engineer came in and told me that planning hadn't been granted on the newest part of the building in the first place! I wish you all the best though