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On 14 Jan 2009 11:54:43 GMT, "Michael R N Dolbear"
wrote:
Mortimer wrote

[rebuilding a petrol station after a fire requiring planning permission]

An interesting point.

Since the rebuild is hardly likely to be truly identical, planning
permission would seem required and of course the previous permission
may have included a time limit which has now expired. Some demolition
would also be needed and ISTR that demolition now requres permission
after various buildings were demolished lest they might be listed for
preservation.

I understand that with domestic buildings, you can build without
permission where there already was a building (though in places like
national parks or conservation areas I believe this doesn't apply),
provided the new building is the same size as the old one. So you can
buy a ruined farmhouse and rebuild it or build a new one of the same
size. Industrial buildings or buildings that store dangerous chemicals
(like petrol) are almost certainly a different case though.

If you're thinking about the same building as I am then that was in
Scotland where demolition is not "permitted development" except in
urgent circumstances.

Dumbarton West Station by any chance?

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