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Hmm... you could be right. Does anyone know whether turning (part) of your house into a film studio requires planning consent (change of use)? I imagine many people have a home office, and AFAIK that doesn't require planning consent, but where is the line drawn? When I was a Parish Councillor we had an ongoing dispute with a chap who used his garage and drive as a commercial car repair workshop, he was on the wrong side of the 'line'. What says the FOAK?
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, steve auvache Surely, by definition, they've got to come somewhere?
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Derek Turner It seems to me that he is causing no nuisance, and is only irritating some prudes. So, in summary, IDGAF.
I say that considering he's been doing it legally for the last ten years, all the agencies that either allow or disallow this sort of thing are fully aware of what he's doing, and as he's still doing it, it probably doesn't require planning permission. *Family* planning yeah, but... If he's got permission to use part of his house as a business area, he'll be paying tax on it, so he'll just (rightfully) carry on. And I can't fucking stand nosy bastard neighbours anyway, so they need fucking just because. -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
Nuisance has nothing to do with it. It all depends if it is considered a change of use. The usual working from home considerations apply. http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/genpub/en/1115314894521.html A question of degree, with each case judged on its merits. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest * 2 Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 Morini 350 "Forgotten Error" | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
The article only says that he has been in the legal porn film business ten years, not that he has been using that house for ten years. If he has been granted planning permission, or the local authority have decided that there has been no material change of use, indeed. <resists temptation to edit post> -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest * 2 Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 Morini 350 "Forgotten Error" | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
Point of clarification. Note that nuisance is a factor, but not causing a nuisance does not automatically mean that change of use permission is not required. IYSWIM. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest * 2 Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 Morini 350 "Forgotten Error" | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Pete Fisher Pete, please don't take the wrong way. but I have just had a mental image of you rocking up on the set of a porn shoot and starting to quote case law at the female lead. Frankly, she didn't look impressed...
Bunch of fucking retards. -- Veggie Dave http://www.iq18films.co.uk "To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine
Chance would be a fine thing. Nah, not me anyway, it would be a planning officer. Bunch of killjoys they are - not like white hats ;-) We pollution and noise types didn't usually get to visit such interesting premises. Though the odd shebeen may have featured more than just music, if we had gone beyond the front door. The Food/HSW inspectors, however, tell a few tales of happening upon close encounters of the sex industry kind when checking on the back rooms of various establishments. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest * 2 Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 Morini 350 "Forgotten Error" | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
<dribble> Er, where can you get that from? -- Veggie Dave http://www.iq18films.co.uk "To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine