Office to residential property development
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which relates to new permitted development rights allowing offices to convert to homes without the need for planning permission.
Since 30 May 2013, premises in B1(a) office use can change to C3 residential use, subject to a prior approval process. Please could you provide, preferably in Excel format, a list of any office to residential prior approval applications received by the council between 30 May 2013 and 31 July 2014. For each such prior approval application, please could you supply the following information:
- the address of the prior approval application, including post code
- your application reference number
- the number of residential units proposed in the prior approval notification for the office conversion
- detail of the outcome of the prior approval application (i.e. prior approval granted, prior approval refused, prior approval not required, prior approval application not decided within 56 day deadline, application yet to be determined, or application withdrawn).
- if known, the amount of office space, in square metres, which would be lost as a result of the change of use
- if known, whether the office space is currently occupied (i.e. are people currently working in the office premises or is the office space vacant)
I would like the above information to be provided to me in electronic format, preferably in an Excel spreadsheet.
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The council’s Planning Applications Register contains most of the information you require in relation to the prior approval applications we have received. They can be viewed here: http://ww3.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cf...
It should be noted that not all applicants provide information regarding the amount of employment floorspace to be lost or whether the premise is vacant or not as this is not a requirement of the prior approval process.
The council has undertaken monitoring of prior approval applications and I attach the latest monitoring summary which covers the monitoring period 1st June 2013 to 31st March 2014. We have not begun the monitoring exercise for the period 1st April 2014.
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This request was made by an anonymous user through mySociety's now defunct FOI Register software (https://www.mysociety.org/2014/02/10/bri...). The integration has now been removed. The external URL for the request was http://foi.brighton-hove.gov.uk/requests....