Drop In Clinic: Planning Permission

A free half-day drop-in clinic focused on planning permission, featuring expert seminars and one-to-one consultations with planning professionals.

This free Drop In Clinic focuses on Planning Permission, offering expert-led seminars, access to the NSBRC exhibits and free 1-to-1 consultations with experienced planning professionals. It is designed to help self builders, renovators and homeowners understand planning policy, local authority processes and common pitfalls.

Advice includes:

• Planning permission for self builds, renovations, extensions and conversions
• Permitted development rights and when they apply
• Lawful development certificates and other planning routes
• Assessing development potential of plots and buildings
• Constraints such as Green Belt, conservation areas and listed buildings
• Preparing strong applications and supporting information
• Common reasons for refusal and how to avoid them
• Pre-application advice and working with local planning authorities
• Planning conditions, timescales and what happens after approval
• Appeals and retrospective applications
• Relationship between planning permission and building regulations

Date & time: Saturday 5 December 2026 (10:00 – 14:00)

Price: Free

Location: Live at The National Self Build & Renovation Centre, Swindon, England