Why Securing a Mobile Home Certificate of Lawfulness is Crucial: Insights from a Hastings Case Study
When looking to site a mobile home within your curtilage as an annexe, compliance with the Caravan Act is critical. At NAPC, we guide clients through the complexities of mobile home planning applications, ensuring legality. A recent Hastings incident, where a man used a crane to prove a point in a planning dispute over a […]
First Of Its Kind Planning Consultancy Will Set Industry Standards For Annexes
Who are NAPC? NAPC are a specialist consultancy launched to raise and maintain standards in annexe construction across England and Wales. NAPC becomes the country’s first and only annexe, mobile home and garden room planning and development consultancy. They are working to ensure that the very highest standards of design, construction and delivery are adhered […]
Ancillary vs Incidental
Many people find the planning approval process at best complicated and, at worst, downright perplexing. And it’s hardly surprising, given its bewildering array of technical jargon and legal niceties. One of the most commonly misunderstood aspects is the difference between an incidental dwelling and ancillary dwelling. So, as specialists in the subject of planning permission, […]
Covid-19 and the rise of the granny annexe
The UK is experiencing a boom in granny annexe building. It’s a trend that’s been accelerated by the Covid pandemic which has, for months at a time, made visiting and caring for ageing family members impossible. The thinking now is to futureproof the family through multi-generational living, whereby reliant parents can still live independently whist […]