- Planning authority
- Central Bedfordshire Council
- Postcodes
- LU6
- Noon sun, 21 March
- About 38°
- Noon sun, 21 December
- About 15°
- Planning plan
- Local Plan
- County
- Bedfordshire
The kinds of plot we look at in Dunstable
Sometimes the plot that works isn’t a single garden at all. Two or three adjoining back gardens in Dunstable can often be combined into one scheme with one shared access, giving a better layout than any of them alone. Each owner keeps their house, and a collaboration agreement with an equalisation clause shares the value fairly. If your own garden is too narrow or too short to work on its own, it’s worth asking whether the neighbours might be interested too.
Planning and light in Dunstable
Planning applications for new homes in gardens in Dunstable are decided by Central Bedfordshire Council. Its decisions follow the council’s Local Plan and the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). Officers usually focus on access, privacy, daylight, the character of the street and the garden left for both homes. Many councils use separation guides of around 21 metres between facing back windows and around 12 to 15 metres between a back window and a blank side wall, but Central Bedfordshire Council’s own guidance decides. We prepare the application with care; the decision is always the council’s.
What we can do in Dunstable
Sell or partner
- Sell part of your garden
- Sell subject to planning
- Garden plot option agreement
- Planning promotion for your garden plot
- Joint venture on your garden plot
- Combine gardens with your neighbours
Design and build
- Build a new home in your garden
- Planning permission for a garden plot
- Build a home for family in your garden
- Plot feasibility and design
By plot type
- Large rear gardens
- Corner and side plots
- Garage courts and yards
- Tandem and landlocked plots
- Bungalows on large plots
What happens next
If you’d like to talk it through first, call us. There’s no script and no hard sell. We’ll ask a few questions about your plot in Dunstable, explain how the free appraisal works and answer what we can on the spot. If it makes sense to go further, we’ll agree the next step together; if it doesn’t, you’ve lost nothing.
Questions about garden plots in Dunstable
How much is my garden plot in Dunstable worth?
There’s no honest figure without looking at the plot. Value depends on location, size, access, title and planning, and costs such as a long drive or difficult ground come straight off what the land is worth. Our free appraisal looks at all of that before we talk about price.
Who decides planning for a new home in a garden in Dunstable?
The decision is made by Central Bedfordshire Council, using the council’s Local Plan, the NPPF and its own design guidance. Small schemes are usually decided by planning officers, and national and council rules set out when one can go to a planning committee instead. We prepare and submit the application and answer the council’s questions, but we can’t promise the outcome.
Can you build a house in my back garden in Dunstable that I keep?
Yes. Our design and build route covers the survey, design, planning application, Building Regulations, construction and handover, while the land and the new home stay yours. You can sell it, let it or use it for family. You’ll get a written quote once the design and survey are done, and any earlier price range is a guide only.
How do you stop a new home in Dunstable overshadowing the neighbours?
By testing the layout against the sun and the council’s guidance. At midday on 21 March the sun in Dunstable is about 38° up, so a 5 m eaves line casts a shadow of roughly 6.4 m; in December it is far lower. Spacing, roof height, orientation and single-storey designs all help keep light where it belongs.